regulation

See also: Regulation and régulation

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From regulate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/
Audio (UK)
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Hyphenation: reg‧u‧la‧tion

Noun[edit]

regulation (countable and uncountable, plural regulations)

(uncountable) The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
(countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
- 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:
  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.
Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.
A type of law made by the executive branch of government, usually by virtue of a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.
(European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
(genetics) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
(medicine) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.

Translations[edit]

act or condition

Finnish: sääntely (fi)
German: Regeln (de) n
Greek: ρύθμιση (el) f (rýthmisi)

Italian: regola (it) f
Japanese: 規制 (ja) (きせい, kisei)
Polish: regulacja (pl) f
Romanian: reglare (ro) f, regulă (ro) f
Sanskrit: विधान (sa) n (vidhāna)
Tagalog: alituntunin (tl)
Turkish: regülasyon (tr)
Ukrainian: регулювання n (rehuljuvannja)

law or administrative rule

Arabic: تَنْظِيم‎ m (tanẓīm)
Armenian: կանոնակարգ (hy) (kanonakarg), կարգավորում (hy) (kargavorum)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 規則 (zh), 规则 (zh) (guīzé)
Czech: nařízení (cs) n
Dutch: reglement (nl) n, verordening (nl) f
Estonian: määrus
Finnish: sääntö (fi), ohjesääntö, järjestyssääntö
French: règlement (fr) m, réglementation (fr) f
German: Regelung (de) f, Regulativ (de) n, Bestimmung (de) f
Greek: κανονισμός (el) m (kanonismós)
Hindi: विनियम (hi) m (viniyam)
Hungarian: előírás (hu), szabály (hu), szabályozás (hu)
Icelandic: reglugerð f
Indonesian: regulasi (id)
Italian: regolamento (it) m

Japanese: 規則 (ja) (きそく, kisóku)
Korean: 규칙 (ko) (gyuchik)
Latin: praescriptum n
Maori: rekureihana
Navajo: bee hazʼáanii
Norwegian: regulering c
Polish: przepis (pl) m
Portuguese: regulamento (pt) m
Romanian: reglementare (ro) f, regulament (ro) n
Russian: уста́в (ru) m (ustáv), пра́вило (ru) n (právilo), регла́мент (ru) m (regláment), предписа́ние (ru) n (predpisánije)
Sanskrit: विधान (sa) n (vidhāna)
Spanish: reglamento (es) m
Swedish: reglering (sv) c
Tagalog: alituntunin (tl)
Turkish: düzenleme (tr)
Vietnamese: chế độ (vi)

EU: self-effecting legislative act

Armenian: կանոնակարգ (hy) (kanonakarg)
Bulgarian: регла́мент (bg) m (regláment)
Czech: nařízení (cs) n
Danish: forordning c
Dutch: verordening (nl)
Estonian: määrus
Finnish: asetus (fi)
French: règlement (fr) m
German: Verordnung (de) f
Greek: κανονισμός (el) m (kanonismós)
Hungarian: rendelet (hu)

Irish: riail f
Italian: regolamento (it) m
Latvian: regula
Lithuanian: reglamentas
Maltese: regolament
Polish: rozporządzenie (pl)
Portuguese: regulamento (pt) m
Romanian: regulament (ro), reglementare (ro) f
Serbo-Croatian: uredba (sh)
Slovak: nariadenie
Swedish: förordning (sv) c

mechanism controlling DNA transcription

French: régulation (fr)
Italian: regolazione (it)

Portuguese: regulação (pt)
Spanish: regulación

physiological process maintaining homœostasis

French: régulation (fr)
Italian: regolazione (it)

Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: rêkxistin (ku)
Portuguese: regulação (pt)
Spanish: regulación

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Translations to be checked

Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} regularo

Adjective[edit]

regulation (not comparable)

In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.
- 1969, Thomas Wiseman, The Quick and the Dead, page 328:
  It is regulation that these directives are to be destroyed on receipt.
- 2004, Marc Miller, The Kettles and the Keeps: Ghosts at War, page 88:
  "The hat is regulation as well, I assume."
- 2007, Jim Butcher, Captain's Fury, page 48:
  It is the responsibility of every legionare to be sure that he is regulation height as well.

Related terms[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

urogenital

regulation

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