regulation

1. 1.

   prescribed by or according to regulation

   “regulation army equipment”

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Other forms of regulation

plural

regulations·

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 regulation

What does regulation mean?

regulation means "an authoritative rule". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in regulation?

regulation has 4 syllables: reg-u-la-tion. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˌɹɛɡjəˈleɪʃən/.

What is another word for regulation?

Close synonyms include ordinance, rule, regularization, regularisation, regulating. 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 regulation a common word?

regulation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 regulation?

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