Synonyms of regulatory

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.

Related Words

• parliamentary
• governmental
• official
• executive
• ministerial
• bureaucratic
• administrative
• supervisory
• managerial
• directorial
• authoritarian
• despotic
• dictatorial

Dissimilar Words

• nonsupervisory
• nonmanagerial

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of regulatory

But the tricky bit is doing so without eviscerating Congress’ regulatory powers across a lot of different dimensions, including criminal law, that the justices may also think important. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026

Gemini's agents can assist with contract review and redlining, legal and policy research, regulatory monitoring, drafting NDAs, preparing documents for redaction, creating contracting playbooks and handling data-subject access requests. — Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Why the data matters For advanced reactor developers, experimental validation is an important part of moving from a conceptual design toward a system that can eventually undergo regulatory review and testing. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026

In their discussions, economists and policymakers debated the regulatory challenges in a world where tokenization is revolutionizing how financial assets are held and transferred. — Maria Eloisa Capurro, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026

Whether companies have the confidence to make those investments depends, in part, on whether our regulatory system provides predictable outcomes. — Robin Rossenfeld, Denver Post, 28 Aug. 2026