Freedom vs Regulation - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
(countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
* Milton
Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum.
(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)
* 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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In uncountable terms the difference between freedom and regulation
is that freedom is the state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved while regulation is The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.In countable terms the difference between freedom and regulation
is that freedom is the lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained while regulation is A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.As an adjective regulation is
in conformity with applicable rules and regulations.freedom
English
(wikipedia freedom)Noun
Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}
- I emboldened spake and freedom used.
Usage notes
* The phrase "freedom from" can have as an object: fear, want, hunger, pain, disease, stress, depression, debt, poverty, necessity, violence, war, advertising, addiction, etc.Synonyms
* liberty * license * exemptionAntonyms
* bondage * constraintDerived terms
* academic freedom * degree of freedom * economic freedom * financial freedom * freedom fighter * freedom fries * freedom march * freedom of assembly * freedom of association * freedom of contract * freedom of expression * freedom of movement * freedom of petition * freedom of religion * freedom of speech * freedom of the air * freedom of the press * freedom of the seas * freedom ride * freedom rider * freedom to roam * individual freedom * let freedom ring * political freedom * unfreedom * non-freedomregulation
English
(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.}}