regulatory agency

1. 1.

   a governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest

   Synonymsregulatory authority

   Broaderadministrative unit

Questions about regulatory agency

What does regulatory agency mean?

regulatory agency means "a governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest".

What is another word for regulatory agency?

Close synonyms include regulatory authority. 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 regulatory agency a common word?

regulatory agency 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.