deregulating

1. 1.

   the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations)

   Synonymsderegulation

   Broaderliberation

Other forms of deregulating

plural

deregulatings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deregulating

What does deregulating mean?

deregulating means "the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations)".

How many syllables are in deregulating?

deregulating has 5 syllables: de-reg-u-la-ting. The stress falls on "reg". In IPA it is /diˈɹɛɡjəˌleɪtɪŋ/.

What is another word for deregulating?

Close synonyms include deregulation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deregulating a common word?

deregulating is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with deregulating?

11 words rhyme with deregulating. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.