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deregulation

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The process of removing constraints, especially government-imposed economic regulation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • Some say the airline industry has been profitable since the government began deregulation of it.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: deregulating

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: liberation, release, freeing

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h1 Proto-Indo-European *déh1 Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English regulation English deregulation From de- + regulation.

Across languages

Translations

16 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Czech: deregulace — process of removing constraints
  • Finnish: deregulaatio — process of removing constraints
  • Finnish: säätelyn purkaminen — process of removing constraints
  • Hungarian: dereguláció — process of removing constraints
  • Hungarian: szabályozások leépítése — process of removing constraints
  • Indonesian: deregulasi — process of removing constraints
  • Malay: penyahkawalseliaan — process of removing constraints
  • Polish: deregulacja — process of removing constraints
  • Portuguese: desregulação — process of removing constraints
  • Portuguese: desregulamento — process of removing constraints
  • Romanian: dereglare — process of removing constraints
  • Russian: дерегуля́ция (dereguljácija) — process of removing constraints
  • Spanish: desregulación — process of removing constraints
  • Swedish: avreglering — process of removing constraints
  • Tagalog: deregulasyon — process of removing constraints
  • Ukrainian: дерегуля́ція (derehuljácija) — process of removing constraints