Usually means: Controls or maintains operations or functions.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. regulates: Merriam-Webster
  2. regulates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. regulates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Regulates, regulates: Wordnik
  5. regulates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. regulates: Wiktionary
  7. regulates: Dictionary.com
  8. regulates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. regulates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. regulates: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. regulates: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. regulates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. regulates: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (regulate)

verb:  To dictate policy.
verb:  To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
verb:  To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
verb:  To put or maintain in order.
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