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underregulated

underregulated adjective: insufficiently regulated. Also the simple past and past participle of underregulate.

Adjective

underregulated (comparative more underregulated, superlative most underregulated)

  1. Insufficiently regulated.
    • “This is a harsh but probably necessary strategy to re-establish control over an underregulated sector,” David Zweig[…] said of the death-sentence verdict.2007 July 7, David Barboza, “China Sentences Official to Death for Corruption”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021
    Antonyms:
    overregulated

Also used as

underregulated is also the simple past and past participle of underregulate.

Antonyms of underregulated

Forms of underregulated

comparativemore underregulated
superlativemost underregulated

Origin of underregulated

From under- + regulated.

From underregulate + -ed.

Questions about underregulated

What does underregulated mean?
Underregulated means insufficiently regulated.
What part of speech is underregulated?
Underregulated is an adjective.

Words near underregulated in the dictionary

  1. underreferences
  2. underreferencing
  3. underregion
  4. underregions
  5. underregulate
  6. underregulated
  7. underregulates
  8. underregulating
  9. underregulation
  10. underrehearsal
  11. underrehearsed

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