King's Regulations

British

plural noun

(in Britain and the Commonwealth when the sovereign is male) the code of conduct for members of the armed forces that deals with discipline, aspects of military law, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Whoever wins will be stuck either enforcing King's regulations or turning to Congress to remove them.

From US News

The King's regulations in the 18th century Navy entitled every serving seaman to 3 square meals per day, square because gruel was served in square platters capable of being stacked and conveyed easily from the galley to the gun decks.

From BBC

And look up Field and General Court-Martials in the King’s Regulations and you’ll know what your Powers are.”

From Project Gutenberg

According to Meulles, the governor not only carried on trade on his own account contrary to the king's regulations, but trade in its most illegal form, that is to say with the English.

From Project Gutenberg

This writer, who is an ardent admirer of Frontenac, seems to regard it as a thing quite to be expected that the king's representative should seize the opportunity to violate the king's regulations.

From Project Gutenberg

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023