Usually means: Rules or principles governing behavior.
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  1. regulative: Merriam-Webster
  2. regulative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. regulative: Collins English Dictionary
  4. regulative: Vocabulary.com
  5. regulative: Wordnik
  6. regulative: Wiktionary
  7. regulative: Dictionary.com
  8. Regulative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. regulative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. regulative: Rhymezone
  11. Regulative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. regulative: FreeDictionary.org
  13. regulative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. regulative: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. regulative: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. regulative: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. regulative: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. regulative: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (regulative)

▸ adjective:  Of or relating to regulation; having a regulatory function.

Similar:
restrictive, regulational, reglementary, deregulatory, regiminal, reguline, riboregulatory, hyperregulatory, dysregulatory, registrative, more...

Types:
deontological, teleological, consequentialist, virtue ethics, feminist ethics, care ethics, more...

Phrases:
regulative principle, self regulative, Regulative principle of worship, more...

Adjectives:
municipal, only, final, like, chief, celebrated, intellectual, critical

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Similar:
restrictive, regulational, reglementary, deregulatory, regiminal, reguline, riboregulatory, hyperregulatory, dysregulatory, registrative, more...

Types:
deontological, teleological, consequentialist, virtue ethics, feminist ethics, care ethics, more...

Phrases:
regulative principle, self regulative, Regulative principle of worship, more...

Adjectives:
municipal, only, final, like, chief, celebrated, intellectual, critical

Colors:
    slate gray,     steel blue,     midnight blue,     charcoal,     teal, more...



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