regulatory
adjective
of or relating to the control or direction of an activity by a set of rules, laws, etc..
regulative
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a variation of
regulatory.
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a word derived from
regulate.
regulateverb (used with object)to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc..
Example Sentences
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Critics in both the public and private sectors have been particularly harsh in their assessment of what they see as BSEE’s failures to act as a robust regulative authority.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
Even as he signed six measures, Mr. Brown, a moderate Democrat with a history of resistance to some efforts to regulate guns, vetoed five others that he described as overly regulative.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2016
Others say the FDA’s latest ban exceeds its regulative authority and that food producers had better beware of other unhealthy ingredients.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 16, 2015
At the Big Ten school I attend in the Midwest, regulative policies are in full effect, and it is notoriously hard to obtain an attention-deficit diagnosis, regardless of diagnostic history.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 4, 2013
These regulative principles are known as The Canons of the Syllogism.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
