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.

Noun

(en noun)

The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).

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The state of being executed (accomplished).

The battle plan was successfully executed .

The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.

(legal) The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.

(legal) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.

(computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.

The entire machine slowed down during the execution of the virus checker .

Whenever the matrix inversion function executed the program crashed.