Regulation vs Commandment - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
(countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
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* Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.
(European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
(lb) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
(lb) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.
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Something that must be obeyed; a command or edict.
* Bible, John xiii. 34
The act of commanding; exercise of authority.
* Shakespeare
(legal) The offence of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.
As nouns the difference between regulation and commandment
is that regulation is The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated while commandment is something that must be obeyed; a command or edict.As an adjective regulation
is in conformity with applicable rules and regulations.regulation
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(wikipedia regulation)Noun
citation, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}
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*commandment
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Alternative forms
* commaundment (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another.
- And therefore put I on the countenance / Of stern commandment .