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nonregulation

nonregulation noun: absence of regulation.

Noun

nonregulation (countable and uncountable, plural nonregulations)

  1. (uncountable) Absence of regulation.
    • Nonregulation of the market led to an eventual collapse.
  2. (countable) 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.2008, Richard Chin, Bruce Y. Lee, Principles and Practice of Clinical Trial Medicine, page 243

Adjective

nonregulation (not comparable)

  1. Not according to regulations.
    • So we played a nonregulation one-wall handball game.2012, Richard M. Abrams, Street Games: Bygone Times in Brooklyn

Forms of nonregulation

pluralnonregulations

Origin of nonregulation

From non- + regulation.

Questions about nonregulation

What does nonregulation mean?
Nonregulation means absence of regulation.
What part of speech is nonregulation?
Nonregulation can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of nonregulation?
The plural of nonregulation is nonregulations.

Words near nonregulation in the dictionary

  1. nonregularizable
  2. nonregularized
  3. nonregulars
  4. nonregulated
  5. nonregulating
  6. nonregulation
  7. nonregulations
  8. nonregulatory
  9. nonrehabilitation
  10. nonrehabilitative
  11. nonrehearsal

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