regulation

CEFRB1

/ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/

noun

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In plain English

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noun
An official rule made to control an activity or process.
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noun
Extra detail
A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.

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At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

A type of law made by the executive branch of a government, usually as authorized by a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.
The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.

In context

Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.
Regulation 18B of the Defence (General) Regulations 1939 (S.R. & O. 1939/927) authorized the British government to intern suspected spies and collaborators during World War II.
It is regulation that these directives are to be destroyed on receipt.

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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
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
It is the responsibility of every legionare to be sure that he is regulation height as well.
2007, Jim Butcher, Captain's Fury, page 48

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From regulate + -ion.