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DEREGULATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they deregulate ... he / she / it deregulates
Past simple: deregulated
Past participle: deregulated
-ing form: deregulating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lift the regulations on
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "deregulate" is one way to...):
exempt; free; relieve (grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
regulate (bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations)
Derivation:
deregulating; deregulation (the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations))
