regulated
SayREG-yuh-lay-tid/ˈɹɛɡjəleɪtɪd/
- 1Controlled by official rules or laws.
Like a sport where every player has to follow the same set rules.
Banks are heavily regulated to keep people's money safe.
A regulated market follows strict rules about prices and safety.
Similarcontrolled, supervised
Oppositeunregulated, deregulated
Note
- 2Simple past and past participle of regulate. Use this form for something that happened earlier.
The government regulated the sale of alcohol for decades.
New laws regulated how factories got rid of their waste.
Note
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regulated is a form of regulate
regulate, verb: To control something by following rules or laws. Full entry
- Forms
- regulateregulates he/she/itregulating -ing formregulated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- regulate → regulated: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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