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dereg

dereg is the clipping of deregulation.

Meaning of deregulation

Noun

deregulation (countable and uncountable, plural deregulations)

  1. The process of removing constraints, especially government-imposed economic regulation.
    • Some say the airline industry has been profitable since the government began deregulation of it.

Forms of dereg

pluralderegs

Questions about dereg

What is dereg the clipping of?
Dereg is the clipping of deregulation.

Words near dereg in the dictionary

  1. dereferences
  2. dereferencing
  3. dereferencings
  4. dereferer
  5. dereferers
  6. dereg
  7. deregionalize
  8. deregionalized
  9. deregionalizes
  10. deregionalizing
  11. deregister

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dereg (page history and authors); deregulation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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