regulation

regulation

See also: Regulation and régulation

English

Etymology

From regulate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/
• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛɡjəˈleɪʃən/

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: reg‧u‧la‧tion

Noun

regulation (countable and uncountable, plural regulations)

1. (uncountable) The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
2. (countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.

   Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.

   • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, 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.

3. (law, often in the plural) 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.
   1. (countable, in the singular) A numbered provision within such kind of law.

      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.

4. (European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
5. (genetics) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
6. (medicine) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.

Usage notes

• In post-1992 Hong Kong, the singular "regulation" is used for the whole enactment, and the term "section" is used for provisions within such enactment.

  Section 3 of the Prohibition on Face Covering Regulation (Cap. 241, sub. leg. K) prohibits using face covering during assemblies and demonstrations, whether they are lawful or not.

Derived terms

• thermoregulation

Related terms

• rule
• ruler
• regulate
• regulator
• coregulation
• deregulation
• immunoregulation

Translations

act or condition

Bulgarian: регулация f (regulacija) Finnish: sääntely (fi) German: Regeln (de) n Greek: ρύθμιση (el) f (rýthmisi) Italian: regola (it) f Japanese: 規制 (ja) (きせい, kisei) Old English: metegung f 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) Bulgarian: правило (bg) n (pravilo), предписание (bg) n (predpisanie), регламент (bg) m (reglament) Chinese: Cantonese: 規例 (kwai1 lai6) Mandarin: 規則／规则 (zh) (guīzé), 規例／规例 (zh) (guīlì) 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 Old English: metegung f 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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Esperanto: (please verify) regularo

Adjective

regulation (not comparable)

1. 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

• regulatory

Further reading

• regulation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• regulation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Anagrams

• urogenital