deregulation

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsderegulating

   Broaderliberation

Other forms of deregulation

plural

deregulations·

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 deregulation

What does deregulation mean?

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

How many syllables are in deregulation?

deregulation has 5 syllables: de-reg-u-la-tion. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /diˌɹɛɡjəˈleɪʃən/.

What is another word for deregulation?

Close synonyms include deregulating. 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 deregulation a common word?

deregulation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 deregulation?

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