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to reregulate

to reregulate

1 7.2
Make rules again for an industry after rules were removed
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈrɛɡjʊˌleɪt/
translation icon : reimponer regulaciones
  • reregulate the industry
  • reregulate the cable

Examples

  • An outraged public demanded legislation to reregulate international media conglomerates, which had had free rein during the largely unregulated years of the Bush-Cheney administration.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Congress decided to reregulate the financial sector after concerns about market stability arose.

  • The government plans to reregulate the telecommunications industry to ensure fair competition.

  • Recent scandals have led lawmakers to reregulate the banking system and protect consumers.

Synonyms

to reinstitute
vsto reregulate
6 6.1

To start again a rule or practice that stopped

focuses on imposing official regulations again after prior deregulation
to reimpose
vsto reregulate
5 6.5

To put a rule or law back in place after it was removed

refers to formally reinstating regulations specifically after deregulation
to reenact
vsto reregulate
  • Formal
2 6.6

Make a law or rule work again after it stopped

is about imposing regulations again after they were removed

Antonyms

to deregulate
25 5.8

To remove rules that the government makes for an industry or market

How Regulated

to tighten
93 3.5
to reregulate
1 7.2
to regulate
258 3.4
to deregulate
25 5.8

Surface Forms

reregulate infinitive
reregulated past
reregulated past participle
reregulating present participle
reregulates third person singular

Morphology

reregulate = regulate (transparent) = re + regulate

The sense is directly compositional: 'regulate again' after regulations were removed or relaxed earlier.

Etymology

Reregulate comes from re- ('again') and regulate ('to make rules or control'), the same root you see in regular. So to reregulate an industry is to put rules or controls back in place after they were removed.