The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
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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.
The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.1956 September, “Notes and News: The Barby Sidings Accident Report”, in Railway Magazine, page 638:
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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.2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
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LawIn plural, Often A type of law made by the executive branch of a government, usually as authorized by a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.
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LawIn plural, Often A numbered provision within such kind of legislation.
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.
(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales only, subject to paragraph (3). (3) This regulation and regulation 2(h) and (v)(i) and (ii) extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.2023, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, “Regulation 1(2)-(3)”, in Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (Commencement No. 1 and Saving Provision) Regulations 2023, page 1:
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LawEuropean Union A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
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Biology, Genetics, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
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Medicine, Sciences Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.
It is regulation that these directives are to be destroyed on receipt.1969, Thomas Wiseman, The Quick and the Dead, page 328:
"The hat is regulation as well, I assume."2004, Marc Miller, The Kettles and the Keeps: Ghosts at War, page 88:
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It is the responsibility of every legionare to be sure that he is regulation height as well.2007, Jim Butcher, Captain's Fury, page 48:
Sorry, Zooble, it's just the perfect regulation softball size! We're not playing baseball here!2025 June 20, Gooseworx, “Untitled” (19:50 from the start), in The Amazing Digital Circus, episode 5, spoken by Kinger (Sean Chiplock):