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regulatory captures

regulatory captures is the plural of regulatory capture.

Meaning of regulatory capture

Noun

regulatory capture (countable and uncountable, plural regulatory captures)

  1. The situation where a regulatory agency, created by government to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the affected industry or sector.
    • This process, known as “'regulatory capture,” turns regulators from watchdogs into lapdogs. You don't have to look far to see regulatory capture in action. Securities and Exchange Commission officials are often accused of ignoring warnings about fraud, stifling investigations, even helping...2014, Charles Seife, “Capture”, in John Brockman, editor, What Should We Be Worried About?, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 36

Questions about regulatory captures

What is regulatory captures the plural of?
Regulatory captures is the plural of regulatory capture.

Words near regulatory captures in the dictionary

  1. regulatoriness
  2. regulators
  3. regulatorship
  4. regulatory
  5. regulatory capture
  6. regulatory captures
  7. regulatory entrepreneur
  8. regulatory entrepreneurs
  9. regulatory entrepreneurship
  10. regulatory framework
  11. regulatory frameworks

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