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Prevision vs Regulation - What's the difference?

prevision | regulation |

As nouns the difference between prevision and regulation

is that prevision is prevision while regulation is regulation.

prevision

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(previsions)
  • Advance knowledge; foresight.
  • *1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
  • *:it was the beginning for her of a deeper prevision that, in spite of Miss Overmore's brilliancy and Mrs. Wix's passion, she should live to see a change in the nature of the struggle she appeared to have come into the world to produce.
  • *1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
  • *:The whole discussion is concerned with City States, and their is no prevision of their obsolescence.
  • A prediction.
  • Verb

  • To predict or envision the future.
  • 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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