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Regulate is a related term of regulable.


As a verb regulate

is to dictate policy.

As an adjective regulable is

of or pertaining to being controllable; able to be made subject to regulation.

regulate

English

Verb

(regulat)
  • To dictate policy.
  • To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
  • * Macaulay
  • the laws which regulate the successions of the seasons
  • * Bancroft
  • The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police.
  • To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.
  • To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
  • to regulate a watch, i.e. adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time
    to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
  • To put or maintain in order.
  • to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances
    to regulate one's eating habits

    Derived terms

    * deregulate * downregulate * upregulate

    regulable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to being controllable; able to be made subject to regulation.
  • Many businesses are regulable because of the interstate commerce clause of the United States' Constitution.

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