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deregulatory

deregulatory

2 7.0
Relating to reducing or removing government rules that control businesses
  • adjective
  • /ˌdiːˈrɛɡjʊˌleɪtəri/
: desregulador
  • The new deregulatory measures will help foster competition in the energy market.
  • deregulatory policy

Examples

  • 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.

    Academic text (1997)
  • In this respect, the country's broader deregulatory reforms will almost certainly make a greater contribution to efficiency than privatization alone.

    Academic text (1993)
  • 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.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The deregulatory emphasis of neoliberalizing states restricted collective bargaining and discouraged even-handed labor inspections and court judgments.

    Academic text (2002)

Antonyms

165 6.1

Relating to official rules that control how something is done

How Regulatory

regulatory
165 6.1
deregulatory
2 7.0
nonregulatory
  • Formal
1 6.8

Surface Forms

deregulatory positive

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.