Queen's Regulations

British  

plural noun

1.  QR.  (in Britain and certain other Commonwealth countries when the sovereign is female) the code of conduct for members of the armed forces

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Example Sentences

Paulson: Well, the National Defense Act has a Queen’s Regulations and Orders, which is like a code of justice for the military.

From MSNBC • Oct. 23, 2019

I said; and being rather the reverse myself, I threw the Queen's Regulations at him, and he disappeared.

From Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

The name of the volume formerly issued by the admiralty to all commanders of ships and vessels for their guidance; now superseded by Queen's Regulations.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

"You know that, by the King's—no, the Queen's Regulations, no letters are allowed to be sent to the friends of prisoners without first passing through the hands of the authorities."

From For the Term of His Natural Life by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

He might know his drill, he might have read his Queen's Regulations, but he had vague ideas of the power of the Press.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 by Various