Regulation Meaning
/ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
nounA law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
Sentence Examples
The regulation was abolished, but then it was reenacted.
We should do away with this regulation.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The new government ____ requires all companies to reduce their carbon emissions by next year.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The new ____ required all food manufacturers to list allergens clearly on their packaging.
Word Origin & History
From regulate + -ion.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards."
— 1956 September, “Notes and News: The Barby Sidings Accident Report”, in Railway Magazine, page 638:
"In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised."
— 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
"(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales only, subject to paragraph (3).
(3) This regulation and regulation 2(h) and (v)(i) and (ii) extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland."
— 2023, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, “Regulation 1(2)-(3)”, in Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (Commencement No. 1 and Saving Provision) Regulations 2023, page 1:
"It is regulation that these directives are to be destroyed on receipt."
— 1969, Thomas Wiseman, The Quick and the Dead, page 328:
""The hat is regulation as well, I assume.""
— 2004, Marc Miller, The Kettles and the Keeps: Ghosts at War, page 88:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The new government ____ requires all companies to reduce their carbon emissions by next year.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The new ____ required all food manufacturers to list allergens clearly on their packaging.