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Definition: Regulation |
RegulationAdjective1. Prescribed by or according to regulation; "regulation army equipment". Noun1. An authoritative rule. 2. A principle or condition that customarily governs behavior; "it was his rule to take a walk before breakfast"; "short haircuts were the regulation". 3. The act of regulating; "fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "regulation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A general operation consisting of putting in place a surface to a given profile or contour. Source: European Union. (references) |
Economics | The government function of controlling or directing economic entities through the process of rulemaking and adjudication. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The modification of the(effective)value of a variable in order to maintain it at a predetermined value. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The difference between the maximum and minimum values of the tube voltage drop of a voltage stabilising tube within a stated range of anode current. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The change in speed resulting from a load change. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The change in voltage resulting from a load change. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Energy | The service provided by generating unitsequipped and operating with automatic generation controls that enables the unitsto respond to the ISO's direct digital control signals to match real-timedemand and resources, consistent with establsihed operating criteria. (references) |
Finance | (1) a rule adopted by a federal or state government executive branch agency. A regulation is based on and carries out a law. (2) the act or process of governing or regulating. (references) |
Law | Besluit van algemene strekking afkomstig van het daartoe bevoegde Overheidsorgaan(b. v. een ministerie), soms beperkt tot die voorschriften die geen wetten in formele zin zijn. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Document providing binding legislative rules, that is adopted by an authority. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Medicine | The adjustment of behaviour or the physical arrangement of an organism to altered conditions. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A regulation (as a legal term) is a rule created by an administrative agency or body that interprets the statute(s) setting out the agency's purpose and powers, or the circumstances of applying the statute.In the context of government and public services regulation (as a process) is the control of something by rules, as opposed to its prohibition.
Regulation as a Process
Regulation is a compromise between prohibition and no control at all.
Public services can encounter conflict between commercial procedures (e.g. maximising income), and the interests of the people using these services. Most governments therefore have some form of control or regulation to manage this possible conflict. This regulation ensures that a safe and appropriate service is delivered, while not discouraging the effective functioning and development of businesses.
For example, the sale and consumption of alcohol and prescription drugs are controlled by regulation in most countries, as are the food business, provision of personal or residential care, public transport, construction, film and TV, etc..
Regulation can have several elements:
Even activities which are not public services often have a limited form of regulation, for example FIFA is the association for professional soccer, RYA is for sailing in Britain. Regulation therefore comes close to the idea of an ethics for a given activity, to promote the best interests of the people participating as well as the acceptable continuation of the activitiy itself within specified limits.
- Public statutes, standards or statements of expectations.
- A process of registration or licencing to approve and to permit the operation of a service usually by a named organisation or person.
- A process of inspection or other form of ensuring standard compliance, or reporting and management of non-compliance with these standards: where there is continued non-compliance, then:
- A process of de-licencing whereby that organisation or person is judged to be operating unsafely, and is ordered to stop operating at the expense of acting unlawfully.
Regulation as a legal term
A regulation is a form of secondary legislation which is used to implement a primary piece of legislation appropriately, or to take account of particular circumstances or factors emerging during the gradual implementation of, or during the period of, a primary piece of legislation.
Other forms of secondary legislation are statutory instruments, statutory orders, by-lawsand rules. Some of these (but not all of them) need to be referred back before being implemented, to the primary legislative process.
An example in Britain is that there is primary, Central Government legislation covering the operations of Local Authorities. These functions include Education, Social Services, Leisure provision, etc..
In that primary legislation there are provisions to allow Local Authorities to legislate for themselves, within reason and under proper process, on a range of matters in their areas of responsibility. This allows the law to be effectively applied with appropriate flexibility and taking account of local factors. These are often best known by the Local Authority concerned.
Regulations also assist the primary legislative process, the national parliament, to avoid the potential bottleneck of the detailed implementatin of all the laws it produces in all the varying cirumstances throughout the land or throughout the process of their implementation.
Concerning EC Law, Regulation has a general scope, and is obligatory in all its elements and directly applicable in all Member States of the European Union. For this reason it constitutes the most powerful or influential of the Community acts. A Directive, on the other hand, may only refer to a restricted number of member states.
Because regulations are directly effective, the individual countries do not need to pass local laws to bring them into effect, and indeed any local laws contrary to the regulation are overruled, as EC Law is supreme over the laws of the Member States. Member states therefore have to legislate in the light of, and consistently with the requirements of, EEC Regulations.
- "the Court of Justice has established a differentiation between what it calls 'Basic Regulations' and 'Execution Regulations'. 'Basic Regulations' establish essential rules governing a certain matter, and are normally adopted by the Council. Execution Regulations technically organise these principles; they are usually taken by the Commission or the Council acting on the basis of article 211."
Examples of matters introduced by regulation were the new '.eu' domain name, and the new European-level 'Community Design Right' an example of intellectual property right.
Trends towards de-regulation
Regulation can be seen to impose unnecessary 'red tape' and other restrictions on businesses. As a result, there has been a movement towards decreasing regulation in recent years.
One example is the international monetary system: it is now much easier to transfer capital between countries. As a result, the globalisation of markets has increased.
Privatisation of industries which had been under previous government control was a wide form of de-regulation in Britain throughout the later years of the last century. Some feel that although this has increased choice in services, nevertheless standards have declined and wages and employment have been reduced.
Other people feel that there has been little progress on this, and that controls on small businesses are greater than ever. They feel that de-regulation is an aspirational rather than a real intention.
See
- public affairs
- Deregulation
- emissions trading
- A glimpse into some United Kingdom deregulatory procedures
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Regulation."
Synonyms: RegulationSynonyms: ordinance (n), regulating (n), rule (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conformity | Adjective: conformable to rule; regular; according to regulation, according to rule, according to Hoyle, according to Gunter; en regle, selon les regles, well regulated, orderly; symmetric. |
Direction | Noun: direction; management, managery; government, gubernation, conduct, legislation, regulation, guidance; bossism; legislature; steerage, pilotage; reins, reins of government; helm, rudder, needle, compass; guiding star, load star, lode star, pole star; cynosure. |
Frequency | Regularity, uniformity, constancy, clock-work precision; punctuality; (exactness); even tenor; system; routine; (custom); formula; rule; (form, regulation); keynote, standard, model; precedent; (prototype); conformity. |
Legality | Verb: legalize; enact, ordain; decree; (order); pass a law, enact a regulation; legislate; codify, formulate; regulate. |
Legislature; law, code, corpus juris, pandect, charter, enactment, statute, rule; canon; (precept); ordinance, institution, regulation; bylaw, byelaw; decree; (order); ordonnance; standing order; plebiscite; (choice). | |
Precept | Rule, canon, law, code, corpus juris, lex scripta, act, statute, rubric, stage direction, regulation; form, formula, formulary; technicality; canon law; norm. |
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Crosswords: Regulation |
| English words defined with "regulation": Administration with the will annexed, age limit, anomie, assize ♦ basal ganglion, Brown Bess, By-law ♦ civil law, control, Controlment, coordination ♦ deregulating, deregulation ♦ extra time ♦ Falk laws ♦ Geneva convention ♦ import barrier ♦ limitation ♦ mercantile system, mercantilism ♦ overtime ♦ public utility, public-service corporation ♦ Reglement, regulation time, Reiglement, restriction, rule of thumb ♦ service, Sitology, speed limit, standing order, Statute staple ♦ Thermotaxic, ticket, trade barrier ♦ Uniform sword, unregulated, utility. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "regulation": International Traffic in Arms Regulation ♦ Regulation G, Regulation T, Regulation U, Risk-informed regulation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Regulation" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (regulation). |
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Clever | There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. (references; author: unknown) | |
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 | Lieutenant Mark Boland making Ozone measurements with a Dobson spectrophotometer . Hair is a little out of regulation but no barbers at the South Pole. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Beginning in January 1998, the B vitamin folic acid will be added to enriched bread, flour, cornmeal, rice, pasta, and other products, according to a 1996 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Fort Meade Recreation Area Regulation Sign and Map Sign at Alkali Creek Trailhead. Credit: Merv Coleman. |  | Regulation of gene expression through promoters and transcription factors. Credit: NIAA. |
 | [Martha Vaughan's lecture on regulation of cyclic nucleotide]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Gene Regulation in the Development of Oral Tissues. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Regulation hospital knapsack of 1862. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Government regulation : can the consumer survive without it? : can free enterprise survive with it?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Noise : new federal/EPA regulation governing interstate motor carriers ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Adam Smith | Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. |
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John Locke | 1690 | What then could be done in this case to prevent the community from being exposed some time or other to eminent hazard, on one side or the other, by fixed intervals and periods, set to the meeting and acting of the legislative, but to intrust it to the prudence of some, who being present, and acquainted with the state of public affairs, might make use of this prerogative for the public good? and where else could this be so well placed as in his hands, who was intrusted with the execution of the laws for the same end? Thus supposing the regulation of times for the assembling and sitting of the legislative, not settled by the original constitution, it naturally fell into the hands of the executive, not as an arbitrary power depending on his good pleasure, but with this trust always to have it exercised only for the public weal, as the occurrences of times and change of affairs might require. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 6: No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | All such international bureaux and all commissions for the regulation of matters of international interest hereafter constituted shall be placed under the direction of the League. (reference) |
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Health | It is also involved in temperature regulation. (references) | |
In part, these changes appear to represent a loss of effective circadian regulation of sleep. (references) | ||
Although no T cell defect has been found, some researchers suspect a problem with T cell regulation. (references) | ||
Business | In France, a special regulation applies for wheelchairs. (references) | |
Products derived from GMOs are subject to the Novel Food Regulation. (references) | ||
Violations of these regulation laws are warranted enough for severe punishment. (references) | ||
Children | Thailand | The 1999 regulation that makes compliance mandatory was not enforced during the year. (references) |
Venezuela | A 1998 government regulation requires hospitals to register the births of all children, but a Government program of sending teams into poor neighborhoods to register minors has been discontinued. (references) | |
Jamaica | The Juvenile Act addresses several areas related to the protection of children, including the prevention of cruelty, a prohibition on causing or allowing juvenile begging, the power to bring juveniles in need of care or protection before a juvenile court, the treatment of juvenile offenders, the regulation and supervision of children's homes, and restrictions on employment of juveniles. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | China | The participation of minors in religious education is prohibited by regulation. (references) |
Pakistan | An arrest warrant under the Frontier Crimes Regulation reportedly was made out against him. (references) | |
Austria | On August 1, the Government passed a new law governing the regulation of public broadcast media. (references) | |
Economic History | Nicaragua | No specific law or regulation governs the field. (references) |
Benin | The banking system is not subjected to excessive regulation. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | Once approved, the regulation will affect about six million cars. (references) | |
Human Rights | Yemen | However, some human rights groups have raised concerns about the regulation. (references) |
Guatemala | The inmates further protested that they had been beaten by the guards for opposing the regulation. (references) | |
Georgia | NGO's claimed that this regulation hinders their ability to substantiate police misconduct because of the close ties between the Procuracy and the police. (references) | |
Political Economy | SWEDEN | Sweden began abolishing a complicated system of agricultural price regulation in 1991. (references) |
BOLIVIA | Further regulation must be issued in the coming months in order to apply these two new decrees. (references) | |
PARAGUAY | A similar regulation was put in place for shoes, clothing, packaged food, and other consumer products. (references) | |
Political Rights | Egypt | Many executive branch initiatives and policies are carried out by regulation through ministerial decree without legislative oversight. (references) |
Kuwait | Liberal Assembly members complained that Islamists were using the threat of formal questioning to change government policy on specific issues, such as regulation of Islamic charities and gender segregation. (references) | |
Trade | Philippines | Radio Regulation Licensing Dept. (references) |
Travel | Russia | Last year a new regulation on export of foreign currency from Russia was introduced. (references) |
China | Business firms seeking to bring in exhibits and items for display should consult with Customs authorities for regulation on the procedures and to obtain copies of appropriate forms. (references) | |
Women | Tajikistan | Women legally are entitled to receive equal pay for equal work; however, this regulation is not always enforced in practice. (references) |
Worker Rights | Indonesia | The regulation applies to union meetings. (references) |
Micronesia | A federal regulation requires that employers provide a safe workplace. (references) | |
Uruguay | Unions traditionally organize and operate free of government regulation. (references) | |
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Rush Limbaugh | The ACLU says the First Amendment prohibits government regulation of what voters may consider in electing candidates. |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | By a judicious regulation of our trade with them we supply their wants, administer to their comforts, and gradually, as the game retires, draw them to us. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | What ever of regulation in our laws has ever been adopted unfavorable to the interest of any foreign nation has been essentially defensive and counteracting to similar regulations of theirs operating against us. |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | The admission of Asiatic immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our population has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulation secured by diplomatic negotiation. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | In recent years we have established a differentiation in the whole method of business regulation between the industries which produce and distribute commodities on the one hand and public utilities on the other. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | A necessary condition of a healthy economy is freedom from the petty tyranny of massive government regulation. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We must begin to scrutinize the overall effect of regulation in our economy. |
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| "Regulation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.56% of the time. "Regulation" is used about 2,509 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 99.56% | 2,498 | 3,621 |
| Noun (common) | 0.32% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.12% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,509 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "regulation": Appetite Regulation ♦ Body Temperature Regulation ♦ break the regulation ♦ currency regulation ♦ customs regulation ♦ degree of regulation ♦ exceed the regulation speed ♦ Facility Regulation and Control ♦ feed regulation ♦ Gene Expression Regulation ♦ inherent regulation ♦ international Traffic in Arms Regulation ♦ provisional regulation ♦ Regulation G ♦ Regulation of Investigatory Powers ♦ regulation sword ♦ regulation system ♦ Regulation T ♦ regulation time ♦ Regulation U ♦ stream regulation by reservoirs ♦ the regulation size ♦ traffic calming regulation ♦ traffic regulation ♦ wage regulation. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "regulation": regulation-making. | |
Ending with "regulation": de-regulation, non-regulation, over-regulation, re-regulation. | |
Containing "regulation": Down-Regulation (Physiology), Up-Regulation (Physiology). | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "regulation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | voorskrif, reël (arrange, fix up, rule), bepaling (adjunct, condition, definition, fixing, stipulation, terms). (various references) | |
Albanian | rregullim (adjustment, arrangement, conciliation, control, disposal, disposition, modulation, mopping, rearrangement, repair, settlement, tuning), rregulla (code, regulations), rregull (cleanliness, cosmos, discipline, institution, law, method, neatness, nomocracy, order, orderliness, precept, procedure, regularity, right, rights, rule, shape, tidiness), ujdisje (decorating, dressing up, fitness, jib), sistemim (collation, disposition), normë (law, Mark, norm, normal, precept, rate, rule, standard). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرسوم (act, decree, edict, legislative, ordinance, sanction), نظم (adjust, arrange, array, bed, cast, code, codify, collocate, compose, construct, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, lay, line, marshal, mastermind, measure, order, organize, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, reform, regiment, regulate, right, seed, settle, shape, shuffle, sort, spruce up, stage, streamline, systematize, verse), نظامي (businesslike, constant, disciplinarian, methodical, regular, systematic), نظام (arrangement, array, bylaw, cosmos, discipline, framework, limitation, measure, method, order, orderliness, organism, organization, prescript, rank, setup, shape, system), قواعد (grammar), قانون (act, code, enactment, law, legislation, rule, statute), تنظيم (adjustment, arrangement, arranging, arraying, disposal, disposition, ordering, organization, organizing, planning, preparation, systematization), ضبط (accuracy, adjust, check, control, dam, detect, exactitude, frame, govern, inspect, measure, monitor, police, preciseness, precision, punctuality, regularize, regulate, rightness, school, set, setting, square, strictness, test, tune, tuning), إحكام (preciseness, precision, thoroughness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | установен (determinate, established, fixed, imperial, invariable, rooted, routine, set, settled, stated, unalterable), униформен (uniform, uniformed), регулация, регулиране (adjustment, direction, tuning), наредба (ordinance), закон (act, decree, law, measure, prescript, principle, statute), предписан (magistral, set), правило (formula, norm, precept, prescription, principle, rubric, rule). (various references) | |
Chinese | 規 (rule), 規則 (rule, rules and regulations), 程. (various references) | |
Czech | regulace, seřízení (setting), pravidlo (bylaw, ordinance, precept, rule), předpis (law, observance, ordinance, precept, prescription, recipe, rule, sub), nařízení (appointment, bylaw, decrement, fiat, mandate, order, ordinance, ordination, statute). (various references) | |
Danish | regulering (adjusting, control, distant control, finishing, fitting, grading, regulating, remote control, shaping, straightening, telecontrol), regel (rule). (various references) | |
Dutch | voorschrift (decree), regulatie. (various references) | |
Esperanto | regulo (rule), preskribo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | regla (norm, rule, standard). (various references) | |
Farsi | قانون (Code, Edict, Law, Rule, Statute), قاعده (Frame, Law, Norm, Rule, Theorem), تنظیم (Adjustment, Alignment, Conduction), تعدیل (Adjustment, Trammel), اءین نامه (Bylaw), دستور (Direction, Injunction, Order, Permission, Program, Rule). (various references) | |
Finnish | säätö (adjustment), määräys (appointment, direction, instruction, order, prescription, provision). (various references) | |
French | régulation, réglage, règlement (draft regulation). (various references) | |
Frisian | regel (rule). (various references) | |
German | Vorschrift (commandment, direction, instruction, order, precept, prescript, prescription, rule, specification), Regelung (arrangement, automatic control, control, controlling, disposal, resolution, ruling, settlement, settling), Regulierung (adjustment, adjustment of average, brace, modulation, settlement), Verordnung (bylaw, decree, enactment, medication, ordinance, prescription), Steuerung (control, controls, management, navigation, piloting, running, steerage, steering, steering mechanism, supervision), Regulation, Regel (Canon, habit, law, menstruation, norm, norma, observance, period, policy, precept, principle, rule). (various references) | |
Greek | ρύθμιση (adjusting, adjustment, control), κανονισμός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תקון (amendment, correction, emendation, improvement, modification, reform, reformation, repair), תק " (improvement, measure, ordinance, reform, remedy, rule), וסות (adjusting, control, modulation), חוק (act, custom, decree, enactment, law, measure, ordinance, rule, statute), "כו " (alignment, directing, direction, guidance), "ס"ר (adjustment, arrangement, regularization, settlement). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szabályzat (code, guide, manual, statutes), szabályozás (conditioning, rating, setting), rendtartás, szabványos (normal, normalized, standard), szabvány (standard), szabályzatnak megfelelő, szabályos (even, normal, orderly, regular, severe, smooth, to spal), rendszabály (measure), regulázás, határozat (decree, deliverance, order, resolution, resolve), előírásos (formal, normative, set), beigazítás (adjustment, rating, set). (various references) | |
Indonesian | peraturan (adjustment, ordinance), aturan (arragement, canon, decree, direction, precept, rule). (various references) | |
Italian | regolazione (adjustment of average, modulation, regularization, setting), regola (guidance, norm, observance, principle, rule), regolamento (Bye-law, rule, rule book). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 粛正 (enforcement). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | レギュレーション , きまり (conclusion, custom, rule, settlement), きせい (ardour, completed, correction, death, entreaty, established, existing, fervour, great master of go, homecoming, oath, parasite, parasitism, pledge, prayer, rare, ready-made, realization of an objective, returning home, spirit, strange voice, uncommon, vigour, vow), しゅくせい (age of decline, enforcement, precocity, purge), きてい (base, default, established, ground, inn, inner rules, launch, official regulations, provisions, restaurant), さ め (agreement, appointment, arrangement, decision, destiny, fate, karma, law, provision, rule), せいり (adjustment, arrangement, menses, physiology, sorting), せい (cause, companion, control, energy, establishment, family name, fault, gender, government, height, holding back, imperial command, laws, -made, make, military strength, organization, reason, regular, restraint, sex, spirit, stature, suppression, surname, system, threaten, true), じょうれい (above example, common usage, custom, laws, ordinance, regulations, rules, usual practice), とうせい (ceramics, control, eastern expedition, head voice, nowadays, present-day, rattan, strength of a party, upward trend), ちょうせつ (adjustment, control), ちょうせい (adjustment, death, execution, government by the imperial court, lengthy military expedition, longevity, manufacture, passing, preparation, the Long March, tonal mark, town administration, town organization, tuning). (various references) | |
Korean | 규칙 (regulator, rule). (various references) | |
Manx | stiurey (captain as team; guidance, captain; guidance, command, control, controllability, direct, direction, guide, handle, handling, helm, lead, manage, manipulate, manipulation, navigate, navigation, pilot, piloting, regulate, rudder, steer, steering, superintendence, supervise, supervision), slattys (law, parliamentary act, statute), reir (according to;precedent, dictate, order, power), reilley (regulate, reign, rule, ruling), curmaghey (appoint, appointment, impose, regulate), anney (command, directive, injunction, mandate). (various references) | |
Papiamen | regla (rule). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egulationray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | regulamento (by-law, ordinance, regulations, rule, rules, statute), regulação (speeding), regra (judge-made law, law, line, rule). (various references) | |
Romanian | regulare, regulamentar, regulament (law, order, regulations, rule, standing orders, statute, statutes), reglementare (arrangement, regulating, settlement), reglementar (normal, regular, statutory), reglare (adjustment, framing, initial adjustment), reglaj (adjustment), prescripţie (direction, limitation, prescript, prescription, receipt, rule), orientare a busolei, ordine (array, command, discipline, disposal, disposition, method, order, orderliness, peace, range, regime, right, sequence, succession, system, tidiness, trim). (various references) | |
Russian | урегулировать (fix up, hammer down, settle), упорядочивание, регуляция, регулировка (adjustment, tune up, tuneup, tune-up, tuneups, tuning), регулирование уставной, регулирование (control, moderation, setting), пр� (dispose of, sell), правило (algorithm, bylaw, cannion, canon, elastic rule, law, lute, norm, rule, straight-edge). (various references) | |
Scottish | riaghailt (a rule), reachd (a loud sob, act, law, ordinance, statute). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | regulisanje (adjustment, direction), regulacija, propis (observance, ordinance, prescript, scripture, technicality), podešavanje (adjustment, modulation, readjustment, suiting, tune up), odredba (decree, stipulation). (various references) | |
Spanish | regla (dross, law, monthlies, period, rule, ruler), regulación (adjustment), reglamento (bylaw, regulations, rules). (various references) | |
Swedish | regel (bolt, fastener, fastening, general, latch, law, Maxim, order, precept, principle, rule), bestämmelse (destination, destiny, mission, prescription, provision, purpose, task, terms). (various references) | |
Turkish | resmi (authorized, ceremonial, ceremonious, certificated, civil, formal, legal, official, solemn, starchy, state, statutory), yasa (act, act of congress, code, enaction, law, statute), yönetmeliğe uygun, sistem (framework, graticule, grid, gridiron, regime, system, the system, tract), kural (code, disposition, law, precept, rule, statute), iş (activity, affair, appointment, assignment, ball game, billet, biz, business, calling, cause, commerce, concern, dealing, deed, doing, doings, employment, ergo-, function, gig, handiwork, job, metier, mission, occupation, occupational, operation, piece, piece of work, place, ploy, post, profession, pursuit, racket, shop, show, spindle, stint, task, things to do, trade, work, working, workings, works), düzenleme (arrangement, collocation, distribution, execution, hatcher, layout, make up, organizing, reorganization, setting, trimming), düzene sokma (organizing, planning), düzen (arrangement, array, contexture, convention, coordination, cosmos, disposal, disposition, formation, get up, harmony, layout, make up, method, order, orderliness, regime, regularity, right, scheme, system, trim), ayarlama (adjustment, arrangement, calibration, fitting, setting up, standardization, tune up, tuning), ayar (accuracy, adjusting, adjustment, carat, content, exactness, flag, foot rule, Gage, gauge, precision, readjustment, regulating, standard, touchstone, tune up, tuning, yardstick). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | регулювання (adjustment, control, tuning), вивіряння, визначений (appointed, clear-cut, definite, determined, established, predestinate, upset), звичайний (accustomed, average, common, common or garden, consuetudinary, conventional, customary, everyday, frequent, homely, mediocre, natural, normal, ordinary, positive, rife, run of the mill, uneventful, unexceptional, usual). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | theo quy định, thường lệ (habitual, usual, usually), thông thường (common, commonly, customary, everyday, normal, normally, ordinary, usual, vulgar, wonted), sự sửa lại cho đúng sự sắp đặt, sự quy định, sự chỉnh lý, sự điều chỉnh (adjustment, fitting), quy tắc (canon, code, line, rule), hợp lệ (proper, properly, statutably), đúng phép. (various references) | |
Welsh | rheol (rule). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ordinatio. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "regulation": regulations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "regulation": deregulation, immunoregulation, nonregulation, osmoregulation, overregulation, reregulation, thermoregulation. (additional references) | |
Words containing "regulation": deregulations, immunoregulations, nonregulations, osmoregulations, overregulations, reregulations, thermoregulations. (additional references) | |
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"Regulation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arculation, ragulation, regualtion, regularian, regulatio. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "regulation" (pronounced re'gyulā"shun) |
| 10 | r e' g y u l ā" sh u n | deregulation, overregulation. |
| 8 | -g y u l ā" sh u n | coagulation, reregulation, strangulation. |
| 7 | -y u l ā" sh u n | accumulation, articulation, calculation, confabulation, depopulation, emulation, formulation, granulation, inoculation, manipulation, miscalculation, overpopulation, ovulation, population, recalculation, simulation, speculation, stimulation, stipulation, tabulation, tribulation. |
| 6 | -u l ā" sh u n | fibrillation, adulation, annihilation, appellation, assimilation, cancellation, capitulation, compilation, congratulation, consolation, constellation, correlation, demodulation, desolation, distillation, elation, escalation, exhalation, extrapolation, gastrulation, inhalation, installation, insulation, isolation, jubilation, modulation, mutilation, oscillation, revelation, titillation, vacillation, ventilation, violation. |
| 5 | -l ā" sh u n | contemplation, deflation, dilation, disinflation, ejaculation, hyperinflation, inflation, legislation, reflation, relation, stagflation, translation, triangulation. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u n | facilitation, falsification, fascination, federation, fermentation, fertilization, figuration, filtration, abrogation, acceleration, acclimation, accommodation, abbreviation, abdication, aberration, abomination, accreditation, accusation, acidification, activation, adaptation, adjudication, administration, admiration, adoration, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, agglomeration, aggravation, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, amalgamation, amelioration, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annotation, anticipation, antidiscrimination, application, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, aspiration, assassination, association, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, bifurcation, calibration, cannibalization, capitalization, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, codification, cogeneration, cogitation, cohabitation, collaboration, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, communication, communization, compensation, complication, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conciliation, condemnation, condensation, confederation, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congregation, conjugation, connotation, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolidation, consternation, constipation, consultation, consummation, contamination, continuation, conversation, convocation, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, corroboration, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, decertification, declaration, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, defamation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, denationalization, denomination, denuclearization, denunciation, deportation, depravation, depreciation, depredation, deprivation, derivation, desalination, desalinization, desecration, desegregation, desiccation, designation, desperation, destabilization, destination, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, dictation, differentiation, dilatation, discoloration, discontinuation, discrimination, disembarkation, disinclination, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, disqualification, dissemination, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, education, elaboration, electrification, elevation, elimination, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, evocation, exacerbation, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, exfoliation, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, expropriation, extermination, fabrication, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, frustration, fumigation, gasification, generalization, generation, gentrification, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, gratification, gravitation, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hibernation, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, identification, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, impregnation, improvisation, imputation, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indoctrination, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, information, inhabitation, initiation, innovation, insemination, insinuation, inspiration, instigation, institutionalization, instrumentation, insubordination, integration, intensification, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, inundation, invalidation, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, justification, laceration, lactation, legalization, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, limitation, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, lubrication, machination, magnetization, magnification, malformation, manifestation, marginalization, masturbation, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misappropriation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, miscreation, misidentification, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, molestation, monopolization, motivation, multiplication, mummification, mutation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nondiscrimination, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, obligation, observation, occupation, operation, optimization, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overvaluation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, pasteurization, penetration, perforation, permutation, perpetuation, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pollination, pontification, popularization, precipitation, predestination, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, preparation, presentation, preservation, pressurization, privation, privatization, probation, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, profanation, prognostication, proliferation, pronunciation, propagation, proration, prostration, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, rationalization, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reauthorization, recantation, recapitalization, recertification, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, reevaluation, reexamination, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinterpretation, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejuvenation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remuneration, renationalization, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, replication, representation, repudiation, reputation, reservation, resignation, respiration, restoration, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, reunification, revaluation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, saturation, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, segmentation, segregation, sensation, separation, sequestration, simplification, situation, socialization, solicitation, sophistication, specialization, specification, stabilization, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, sterilization, subluxation, subordination, subsidization, substantiation, suburbanization, suffocation, summation, superstation, syndication, taxation, telecommunication, temptation, termination, toleration, transformation, transillumination, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, visitation, visualization, vocation, vulgarization, westernization. |
| 3 | -sh u n | faction, fashion, fiction, fission, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, accession, abduction, abolition, abortion, accretion, acquisition, action, addiction, addition, admission, admonition, adoption, advection, affection, affliction, aggression, alliteration, alternation, ambition, ammunition, antiabortion, anticorruption, apparition, apportion, apprehension, ascension, ashen, assertion, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, beautician, benediction, brutalization, caption, carburetion, caution, circulation, circumspection, clinician, coalition, coercion, cognition, collection, com |
