regulating

Noun
  1. The act of controlling or directing according to rule (synset 100806695)
    "fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians"
    is a type of: control - the activity of managing or exerting control over something
    subtypes:
    • devaluation - an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries
    • gun control - efforts to regulate or control sales of guns
    • indexation - a system of economic regulation: wages and interest are tied to the cost-of-living index in order to reduce the effects of inflation
    • timing - the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics)
    • limitation, restriction - an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)
    same as: regulation

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