regulation
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
regulation/reɡjuˈleɪʃn/
▶noun
- 1 a rule or directive made and maintained by an authority.
■ [as modifier] in accordance with regulations.
■ [as modifier] informal of a familiar or predictable type.
- 2 the action or process of regulating or being regulated.
'regulation' also found in these Oxford entries:
break
- by-law
- conference
- creative accountancy
- curfew
- double time
- get
- oil platform
- pranayama
- prohibition
- recusant
- rule
- self-regulating
- stannary court
- thermoregulation
- -trophic
- variance
