underregulated

adj

underregulated

adj

Etymology From under- + regulated.

1

Insufficiently regulated.

  • “This is a harsh but probably necessary strategy to re-establish control over an underregulated sector,” David Zweig[…] said of the death-sentence verdict.2007 July 7, David Barboza, “China Sentences Official to Death for Corruption”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021:
Related terms
deregulation, dysregulated, underregulation

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