To remove or reduce regulatory controls over an activity or industry.
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Words that belong together
- deregulate a market
- deregulate an industry
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The reform deregulated entry into the market while retaining safety requirements.
The proposal to deregulate the industry was assessed against specific rules rather than an assumption that all oversight would disappear.
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- Base
- deregulate
- Past tense
- deregulated
- Past participle
- deregulated
- Present participle
- deregulating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- deregulate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are deregulating
- Present perfect
- have/has deregulated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been deregulating
- Past
- deregulated
- Past continuous
- was/were deregulating
- Past perfect
- had deregulated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been deregulating
- Future
- will deregulate
- Future continuous
- will be deregulating
- Future perfect
- will have deregulated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been deregulating
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Usage notes
Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: deregulate; deregulates; deregulated; deregulated; deregulating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: economic process explanation, financial distinction, incentive analysis, institutional change. Disciplines: economics, business, public policy. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: deregulates.
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