regulations

Noun

regulation (countable and uncountable, plural regulations)

1. (uncountable) The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
2. (countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
   • Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.
3. (in plural, often) A type of law made by the executive branch of a government, usually as authorized by a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.
   1. (countable, in plural, often, singular) A numbered provision within such kind of legislation.
      • Regulation 18B of the Defence (General) Regulations 1939 (S.R. & O. 1939/927) authorized the British government to intern suspected spies and collaborators during World War II.
4. (European-Union) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
5. Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.

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