deregulation
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- noun
- /ˌdiːrɛɡjuˈleɪʃən/
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desregulación
- The method the Court used to increase the free flow of information was deregulation, specifically striking down regulations on corporate speech.
- bank deregulation
- financial deregulation
- privatization and deregulation
There was an era of deregulation which was the Reagan Thatcher years.
- There was an era of deregulation which was the Reagan Thatcher years.
- The dictatorship of the market, the invisible hand of the regular deregulation.
- But it turns out that this actually kind of might be goodish in that it's a like a wee smidge of deregulation.
- But through a tax cut and deregulation, we had managed to create foster the genius that is the American free market system.
Examples
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With the deregulation of the banks, GMAC and other less scrupulous companies were able to sell mortgages to poor people who couldn't possibly afford them.
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This is an important issue that came up in the area of airline deregulation, which is what I want to talk about for a few minutes.
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These are the people that promised us that financial deregulation would make all of us rich.
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The promotion of competition through deregulation is intended to benefit consumers, many of whom are large companies.
Academic text (1992) -
Destruction of the telephone monopoly and deregulation of the phone rates went hand in hand.
Academic text (1994) -
Since the 1980s, academic economists have been major advocates of deregulation and played powerful roles in shaping U.S. Government policy.
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The effect of deregulation was a long series of bankruptcies in which the legacy carriers went broke and those which have survived.
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The Reagan administration, supported by economists and financial lobbyists, started a 30-year period of financial deregulation.
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Of course, there's real concern that deregulation may recreate the very same conditions that caused the crash leading to average investors, retirees and blue collar people in middle America losing their savings.
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The deregulation of the telecommunications industry has led to increased competition and lower prices for consumers.
Synonyms
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6.7
Making rules less strict to allow more trade and travel
Antonyms
How Regulated
Surface Forms
Morphology
deregulation = deregulate (transparent) = de + regulate + ion
This is a standard noun formation from the verb 'deregulate', meaning the process or result of deregulating.
Etymology
Deregulation comes from the prefix de- meaning 'remove' and regulation meaning 'rule' or 'control', the same root you see in regular and regulate. So deregulation is the 'removal of rules', for example when a government takes away controls from an industry.