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Definition: Deregulate |
DeregulateVerb1. Lift the regulations on. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: regulate (v). (additional references) |
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Business | As such, the Saudi Government is expected to deregulate major telecommunication services, including long distance, Internet, VSAT, mobile network and paging. (references) | |
Countries like Korea that restructure and deregulate before government purchased generators have been paid off are prone to incur unrecoverable, or rather "stranded," costs. (references) | ||
However, conditions changed in 1998 when Korea's Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE) revealed a sweeping plan to restructure, privatize, and deregulate the country's electricity industry. (references) | ||
Economic History | Venezuela | It was thought that this would deregulate the market and improve profitability. (references) |
Germany | In 1998, Germany began to deregulate and privatize its telecommunications sector. (references) | |
Pakistan | The GOP has continued policies to liberalize and deregulate the exchange and payments regime. (references) | |
Political Economy | NORWAY | Norway has taken some steps to deregulate the non-bank service sector. (references) |
Cameroon | Over the past 4 years, GNP growth has averaged 4 to 5 percent annually; however, economic recovery continued to be inhibited by a large inefficient parastatal sector, excessive public sector employment, and the Government's inability to deregulate the economy to attract more investment. (references) | |
GERMANY | The EU gas liberalization directive went into effect on August 10, 2000, but the negotiated third-party access agreement (TPA) agreed to by market participants in Germany has not produced the degree of competion that followed the electricity deregulation in April 1998. Paralleling German government efforts to deregulate the economy, the European Commission is expected to continue to pressure member states to reduce barriers to trade in services within the Community. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We seek to fully deregulate natural gas to bring on new supplies and bring us closer to energy independence. |
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| "Deregulate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Deregulate" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 90.91% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
deregulate | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "deregulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 解除管制 (decontrol, deregulating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eregulateday отменять (государственное) регулирование (цен и т. п.), прекращать регулирование. (various references) avreglera. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "deregulate": deregulated, deregulates. (additional references) | |
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"Deregulate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Darriulat, degranulate, deroualt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "deregulate" (pronounced dēre"gyulāt) |
| 5 | -y u l ā t | overpopulate. |
| 4 | -u l ā t | violate. |
| 3 | -l ā t | modulate. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-g-l-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: leaguered, regelated, regulated, relegated. | |
-2 letters: delegate, eglatere, regelate, regulate, relegate. | |
-3 letters: alerted, altered, deterge, etagere, gelated, gleeted, greeted, grueled, lagered, leagued, leaguer, legated, legatee, regaled, reglued, related, tegular, treadle. | |
-4 letters: agreed, argled, argued, aulder, dartle, dealer, degree, delate, delete, deluge, derate, dragee, dueler, eaglet, elated, elater, eluate, eluder, eluted, ergate, galere, geared, gelate, gelder. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-g-l-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: deregulated, deregulates, reregulated. | |
+2 letters: outgeneraled. | |
+3 letters: overregulated. | |
+5 letters: thermoregulated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 72 65 67 75 6C 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .-. . --. ..- .-.. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100111 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e r e g u l a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0072 0065 0067 0075 006C 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38718471738778678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Quotations: Speeches | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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