Thesaurus results for REGULATIONS

regulations

noun

plural of regulation

as in rules

a statement spelling out the proper procedure or conduct for an activity it's against community regulations to leave your trash on the curb for more than two days

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as in operations

the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something the owner seldom visited the plant and did not take an active part in the regulation of the company

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as in oversights

the duty or function of watching or guarding for the sake of proper direction or control the regulation of the soccer team was left entirely to the head coach and her assistants

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Recent Examples of regulations The Riverside County Board of Supervisors took a similar step last year, approving a set of regulations to deter the sale and marketing of kratom. —

Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026 Trump signed an executive order in December to block states from crafting their own regulations. —

Seung Min Kim, Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2026 Anya Freeman, founder of KIND Designs, said current regulations cap seawall thickness at 18 inches. —

Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2026 As traceability demands from the market and regulations continue to grow, TSG’s portfolio allows data for digital product passports (DPP) and sustainability reporting to be collected and then shared through the group’s software rather than relying on manual information transfer, reducing errors. —

Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 20 Mar. 2026 On the admin end, colleges have been lately cowed by new regulations at the Department of Education. —

Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Mar. 2026 The announcement comes as state governments have forged ahead on their own regulations for AI while civil liberties and consumer rights groups lobby for more regulations on the powerful technology. —

Dallas Morning News, 20 Mar. 2026 These are settlements which are built even in violation of Israeli planning regulations, but, again, the vast majority of them are fully supported by the government. —

Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026

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All medical specialties have rules for filling out their notes, and ABA providers shouldn’t need the state to tell them that copying and pasting the same summary for each session, as the inspectors found in some cases, wasn’t good enough, Bimestefer said.

— Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2026
Teams are required to demonstrate that there was a misapplication of the official playing rules, as opposed to an error in judgment by game officials, according to the NBA.

— Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2026