deregulatory
- adjective
- /ˌdiːˈrɛɡjʊˌleɪtəri/
- The new deregulatory measures will help foster competition in the energy market.
- deregulatory policy
Examples
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Moreover, the Court failed to acknowledge the immediate harm to listeners' rights that its deregulatory holding would have: immediately reducing the amount of information available to consumers.
Academic text (2017) -
Driven by the Tea Party, the House has passed numerous deregulatory laws, some of them multiple times.
Blog text (4) -
Now, with that opportunity lost, and with the FCC's deregulatory policy over cable matters, the question must be left for the future.
Academic text (1991) -
What such rankings tend to miss, however, are the subtle deregulatory changes that help propel markets.
Academic text (2009) -
Separating its potential impact from that of other liberalizing and deregulatory policies is almost impossible.
Academic text (1993) -
" One of the early causes of today's problems was the deregulatory ripple that started in the Reagan administration.
Academic text (2009) -
Even the deregulatory philosophy and executive orders during President Reagan's incumbency did not substantially slow this trend.
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In this respect, the country's broader deregulatory reforms will almost certainly make a greater contribution to efficiency than privatization alone.
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Put differently, corporations use the First Amendment as a deregulatory weapon, urging courts to strike down structural and economic regulations as violations of their speech rights.
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The deregulatory emphasis of neoliberalizing states restricted collective bargaining and discouraged even-handed labor inspections and court judgments.
Academic text (2002)
Antonyms
How Regulatory
Surface Forms
Morphology
deregulatory = regulatory (semi-transparent) = de + regulat + ory
The link to 'regulatory' is visible, but 'deregulatory' specifically means favoring or involving removal of regulation rather than simply 'not regulatory'.
Etymology
Deregulatory is made from de- meaning 'remove' and regulatory, which comes from 'rule' and is the same root as regular. So a deregulatory policy is one that removes or reduces government rules and controls.