Regulation vs Finesse - What's the difference?
regulation | finesse |
(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)
* 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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(uncountable) The property of having grace, elegance, skill, or balance.
(uncountable) Skill in handling of a situation.
(countable) An adroit maneuver.
(countable, bridge) A technique which allows one to promote tricks based on a favorable position of one or more cards in the hands of the opponent.
(ambitransitive, card games) To play (a card) as a finesse (see noun sense above).
To handle or manage carefully or skillfully.
To evade.
As nouns the difference between regulation and finesse
is that regulation is regulation while finesse is finesse.regulation
English
(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.}}