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Underregulated vs Underregulate - What's the difference?

underregulated | underregulate |

As an adjective underregulated

is insufficiently regulated.

As a verb underregulate is

to regulate inadequately.

underregulated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Insufficiently regulated
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 7, author=David Barboza, title=China Sentences Official to Death for Corruption, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“This is a harsh but probably necessary strategy to re-establish control over an underregulated sector,” David Zweig

    underregulate

    English

    Verb

    (underregulat)
  • To regulate inadequately.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 20, author=Diana B. Henriques, title=Commodities: Latest Boom, Plentiful Risk, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=It’s not a question of overregulating or underregulating . }}

    Related terms

    * underregulation