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nonregulation

noun

Etymology

From non- + regulation.

  1. borrowed from regulatus
  2. suffixed as regulation — “regulate + ion”
  3. prefixed as nonregulation — “non + regulation”

Definitions

  1. Absence of regulation.

    • Nonregulation of the market led to an eventual collapse.

  2. That which is not a regulation.

    • In addition to regulations, there are nonregulations that are important. For example, the policy at most major medical journals that they will only publish studies that had been prospectively listed in a public clinical trial database.

  3. Not according to regulations.

    • So we played a nonregulation one-wall handball game.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA