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Regulation vs Enforcement - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between regulation and enforcement

is that regulation is regulation while enforcement is the act of enforcing; compulsion.

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.
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  • , 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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    enforcement

    English

    Alternative forms

    * inforcement

    Noun

    (wikipedia enforcement) (en-noun)
  • The act of enforcing; compulsion.
  • A giving force to; a putting in execution.
  • That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.
  • See also

    * enforcement authority

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