Prevision vs Regulation - What's the difference?
prevision | regulation |
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.
To predict or envision the future.
(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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As nouns the difference between prevision and regulation
is that prevision is prevision while regulation is regulation.prevision
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(previsions)Verb
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.}}