regulation time

1. 1.

   (sports) the normal prescribed duration of a game

   “the game was finished in regulation time”

   Antonymsovertime

   Broadertime period

   Part ofathletic game

   sport

Questions about regulation time

What does regulation time mean?

regulation time means "(sports) the normal prescribed duration of a game".

What is the opposite of regulation time?

The recorded antonyms are overtime.

Is regulation time a common word?

regulation time 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.