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DEREGULATION
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("deregulation" is a kind of...):
freeing; liberation; release (the act of liberating someone or something)
Derivation:
deregulate (lift the regulations on)