regulations
- 1Plural of regulation.
Environmental regulations forced the plant to upgrade its filtration system.
The committee reviewed dozens of regulations before approving the merger.
Note
Only the countable senses of regulation have a plural, so this form always means rules, never the act of regulating, which stays uncountable. In law the plural is often the natural form: the rules an executive issues under a statute are usually spoken of as regulations, and so are the numbered provisions inside them. Context decides whether the regulations means a whole body of law or several of its clauses.
regulations is a form of regulation
regulation, noun: A rule or law issued by an organization to guide or direct how its members behave. Full entry
- Forms
- regulationregulations plural
- Spelling
- regulation → regulations: add -s
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