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deregulate Definition

de·regu·late (dē regyə lāt′)

transitive verb -·lat′ed, -·lat′·ing

to remove regulations governing to deregulate the price of natural gas

deregulate Related Forms
de·reg′u·la·tion noun
deregulate Usage Examples

Object

  • capitalism: Schrempp had been pushing for a style of management much more like the Anglo-American model of deregulated free market capitalism.
  • market: The UK retail sector is the most deregulated retail market in Europe with consumers having 150 hours a week to shop.
  • economy: The great achievement of the Thatcher years was rolling back the frontiers of the state and creating a deregulated, flexible economy.
  • regime: Most of Britain struggles to maintain bus services in the deregulated regime that sees competition and not public service as the overriding ethic.
  • industry: It is not simply a device to regulate or deregulate an industry.
  • bank: The market value of such a deregulated bank is embodied in the current price of the bank's stock.

Used with why or when

  • where: This comes from our genuine desire to deregulate where we can.

Adjective complement

  • private: This new system is being tested for the deregulated private rented sector in nine ' pathfinder ' areas.

Modifying Another Word

  • completely: In the early 19th century there was an attempt to build a completely deregulated, unfettered free market.
  • newly: So the business opportunity presented itself in the form of the newly deregulated electricity market.
  • effectively: The theory [ RCT ] even predicts the churching of Europe, should the religious economies of those nations be effectively deregulated.
  • not: Greater London is the only area in Great Britain in which bus services were not deregulated under Part I of the Transport Act 1985.
  • radically: We will speed up the DTI's procedures for granting licenses to new telecoms operators and radically deregulate the telecoms industry.
  • largely: Agency working is largely deregulated in the three Scandinavian countries but temps are protected by strong employer and trade union agreements.

Preposition: in

  • disease: Defining precisely how 14-3-3s affect the function of these proteins will in turn help us understand how cellular processes are deregulated in diseases.

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