German

Noun

Regulation f ‎(genitive Regulation, plural Regulationen)

1. regulation

Synonyms

• Regulierung f

English

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.
   • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:

     In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.

   • Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.
3. (European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
4. (genetics) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
5. (medicine) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.

Translations

Adjective

regulation ‎(not comparable)

1. In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.
   • 1969, Thomas Wiseman, The Quick and the Dead, page 328:

     It is regulation that these directives are to be destroyed on receipt.

   • 2004, Marc Miller, The Kettles and the Keeps: Ghosts at War, page 88:

     "The hat is regulation as well, I assume."

   • 2007, Jim Butcher, Captain's Fury, page 48:

     It is the responsibility of every legionare to be sure that he is regulation height as well.

Related terms

• rule
• ruler
• regulate
• regulator
• coregulation
• deregulation

External links

• regulation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• regulation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• urogenital