unregulated
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4.9
- adjective
- /ˌʌnˈrɛɡjʊˌleɪtɪd/
:
no regulado
- Without any rules in place, the unregulated marketplace led to widespread fraud.
- unregulated market
- largely unregulated
- unregulated fishery
Right now it is an unregulated wild, Wild West.
- Right now it is an unregulated wild, Wild West.
- You've got this absolute swirling, unregulated conflict in the real world.
- And that's the unregulated money that's pouring into our system.
- But now it's splintered off into these unregulated factions of the Internet with people like you.
- Nevertheless, there's no such thing as the realm of unregulated voluntary transactions.
- So I think we're seeing all kinds of really scary downstream effects from unregulated pornography use.
- It was planning and remains a system that has always left considerable wiggle room for unregulated, unplanned interventions.
- You cannot have unregulated, unsupervised capitalism because it causes damage to civilization.
- They want America to be for Americans and for us to control the economy and to receive the benefits of all of this unregulated capitalism.
- So the suggestion there is that unregulated institutions did better than regulated institutions, and that does not surprise me at all.
- If something went wrong on an unregulated Bitcoin exchange and US investors lost money, the SEC could look quite bad.
- And so we're just in this frontier, this unregulated frontier where anything goes at the moment.
- We have fashion is one of the most unregulated industries in the world.
- And it's the wild, Wild West still unregulated.
Examples
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By the late 1990s, derivatives were a 50-trillion-dollar unregulated market.
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These domestic workers are working without contracts in unregulated and unenforced workplaces.
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Right now it is an unregulated wild, Wild West.
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This stuff is unregulated, right?
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Very few people get to own their own unregulated network, which is what Twitter is.
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Even when a market does not perform well, some special interests will profit from its unregulated state.
Academic text (2017) -
And so we're just in this frontier, this unregulated frontier where anything goes at the moment.
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We need better regulation of the wildlife pet trade, which goes almost entirely unregulated, say several of the researchers.
Academic text (2008) -
The crisis demonstrated that unregulated or poorly regulated markets can produce extraordinary costs.
Academic text (2011) -
The the Dodd Frank bill we thought would put more regulation on them, but they're still surviving as largely unregulated organizations.
Synonyms
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4.9
Allowed to continue without control
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3.9
Not kept within limits, like a fire or a strong feeling
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7.3
Free from limits or rules
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4.1
Free from limits and control, it allows people to use or access
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7.1
Not controlled and showing no restraint
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8.3
Free and not limited by rules
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5.2
Something that no person or system controls
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5.3
Free to move or act without being stopped
Not required by official rules or laws
Not required by law
Not made into law and so not legally enforced
Not under official rules or direct management by an authority
A place not controlled by any government or leader
Not kept to strict rules and giving people freedom to choose
Without walls or edges, things move freely
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A chemical used in scientific research that is not controlled by authorities
How Regulated
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Morphology
Etymology
Unregulated comes from the part un- ('not') and regular ('following a rule'). So, unregulated means 'not controlled by rules or laws', and it describes something with no official supervision.