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Etiquette vs Regulation - What's the difference?

etiquette | regulation |

As nouns the difference between etiquette and regulation

is that etiquette is tag, label while regulation is regulation.

etiquette

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society.
  • The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other.
  • * 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
  • Cycling's complex etiquette contains an unwritten rule that riders in contention for a race win should not be penalised for sheer misfortune.
  • A label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail.
  • Quotations

    * 1885 , *: If you think we are worked by strings, / Like a Japanese marionette, / You don't understand these things / It is simply Court etiquette . * 2001 , Eric R. Wolf, Sydel Silverman, Aram A. Yengoyan, Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World , page 182 *: These then influence other groups, who recut and reshape their patterns of interpersonal etiquettes to fit those utilized by the tone-setting group.

    regulation

    Noun

  • (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.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
  • , author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) 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.}}
  • * 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.
  • Adjective

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  • In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.
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