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Underregulates vs Underregulated - What's the difference?

underregulates | underregulated |

As a verb underregulates

is (underregulate).

As an adjective underregulated is

insufficiently regulated.

underregulates

English

Verb

(head)
  • (underregulate)

    • 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

    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