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well-regulated

well-regulated adjective: orderly, properly maintained, and efficiently managed.

Adjective

well-regulated (comparative more well-regulated, superlative most well-regulated)

  1. Orderly, properly maintained, and efficiently managed.
    • Each well-regulated Indian Cemetery keeps half a dozen graves permanently open for contingencies and incidental wear and tear.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 52

Forms of well-regulated

comparativemore well-regulated
superlativemost well-regulated

Questions about well-regulated

What does well-regulated mean?
Well-regulated means orderly, properly maintained, and efficiently managed.
What part of speech is well-regulated?
Well-regulated is an adjective.

Words near well-regulated in the dictionary

  1. well-quasi-ordering
  2. well-quasi-orderings
  3. well-read
  4. well-received
  5. well-regarded
  6. well-regulated
  7. well-respected
  8. well-rested
  9. well-room
  10. well-rooms
  11. well-rounded

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