Usually means: Remove or reduce government controls.
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  1. deregulate: Merriam-Webster
  2. deregulate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deregulate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deregulate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deregulate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deregulate, deregulate: Wordnik
  7. deregulate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deregulate: Wiktionary
  9. deregulate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deregulate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deregulate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deregulate: Dictionary.com
  13. deregulate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. deregulate: Rhymezone
  15. deregulate: FreeDictionary.org
  16. deregulate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. deregulate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. deregulate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. deregulate: Financial dictionary

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To remove the regulations, or legal restrictions, from.

Similar:
unregulate, deregularize, unrestrict, derestrict, decontrol, delegalize, deliberalize, declassify, deregionalize, decriminalize, more...

Opposite:
regulate, control, restrict

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Similar:
unregulate, deregularize, unrestrict, derestrict, decontrol, delegalize, deliberalize, declassify, deregionalize, decriminalize, more...

Opposite:
regulate, control, restrict



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