regulatory

adjective

as in parliamentary
formal making or concerned with making official rules about what is acceptable in a particular business, activity, etc. a regulatory agency They are seeking regulatory approval for the merger.

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Recent Examples of regulatory Yet, Wealth Briefing Asia notes that regulatory and reporting challenges often stop family offices from fully embracing crypto assets. — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026 The project has reached several key regulatory milestones on its path to full operation. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026 Prediction markets and some of their executives have also been spending on local elections and on lobbying — primarily spending on the campaigns of politicians who oversee and shape their regulatory body, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. — Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026 Huynh described the phase 3 results as clinically meaningful and likely to support regulatory approval, but said the primary efficacy result landed at the low end of investor expectations. — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026 One of the big hurdles is regulatory, as the Starship vehicle must return to the launch site over land, including northern Mexico. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026 Moderna and Merck are talking with regulatory authorities about next steps for seeking approval of the vaccine. — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026 The transaction is subject to completing the due diligence, negotiating a definitive agreement, board and shareholder approval from both companies, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions. — David Moin, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026 If Meta moves its headquarters to another state, Zuckerberg will move to that jurisdiction, according to the regulatory filing. — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regulatory
  1. parliamentary
  2. governmental
  3. official
  4. executive
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  • Vance has campaigned for a foreign leader — then-Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, last spring before the right-wing leader’s party lost that country’s parliamentary election.
    — Thomas Beaumont, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
  • But Palestinian parliamentary leverage reached a high point in 1992–1995, when Yitzhak Rabin’s government relied on support from two Arab-majority parties.
    — Tamir Sorek, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of parliamentary
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  • The Binyamin Regional Council, an Israeli governmental body responsible for settlements in the area of the clashes, said the Palestinian Authority had sent activists to deliberately provoke residents of the Israeli settlement outpost near Abu Falah.
    — Dov Lieber, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The display did not impress everyone as evidence of governmental strength.
    — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of governmental
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  • In a stunning political comeback, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been elected president of Brazil, according to official results from Sunday's runoff election, with more than 96% of the votes counted.
    — Catherine Osborn, NPR, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Utah and Arizona were the first states, in 2011, to adopt official state firearms.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of official
Adjective
  • When growth pressures persist, corporate boards frequently turn to executive leadership changes to engineer a turnaround, as demonstrated by this week's executive shakeup at Swiss chocolate maker Lindt.
    — , CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Bill Frauenhofer, an executive director at the Department of Commerce, pointed out that breakthroughs in high-power switching will aid national power grids and defense applications.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of executive

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