Other forms: regulations
A regulation is a rule made by an authority to control an activity. Safety regulations, breach the regulations, tighten regulation.
It differs from a law in who makes it: parliaments pass laws and regulators write regulations under powers those laws grant, which is faster and less accountable. As an adjective, regulation means standard-issue — regulation boots.
1nounregulationA rule made by an authority to control an activity.
“New regulations ban smoking in all restaurants and bars.”
regulation is a rule.
Regulate plus -ion, from Latin regula, a rule, from regere, to rule or direct.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₃reǵ-
Latin
regulatus
English
regulate
English, today
regulation
Built from
From regulate + ion. regulate Borrowed from Latin regulatus, perfect passive participle of regulō (“to direct, rule, regulate”) (see -ate), from regula (“rule”), from regō (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”). Compare regle, rail. Displaced native metegian.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA