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Regulation vs Grandfathering - What's the difference?

regulation | grandfathering |

As nouns the difference between regulation and grandfathering

is that regulation is (uncountable)   the act of regulating or the condition of being regulated while grandfathering is exemption from new legislation or regulations.

As an adjective regulation

is in conformity with applicable rules and regulations.

As a verb grandfathering is

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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.
  • *{{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) 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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    grandfathering

    English

    Verb

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  • Noun

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  • Exemption from new legislation or regulations.
  • *2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 311:
  • *:The grandfathering of boundaries has been, on average, a pacifying development […].