deregulation.

The removal or relaxation of official rules governing an activity.

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Words that belong together

• market deregulation
• financial deregulation

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Market deregulation changed how new suppliers entered the industry.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. 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: analysis, evaluation, business. Commonness: moderately common.