regulating
English Thesaurus
1. the act of controlling or directing according to rule (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | control, |
| definition | : | the activity of managing or exerting control over something (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | devaluation, |
| definition | : | an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | gun control, |
| definition | : | efforts to regulate or control sales of guns (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | indexation, |
| definition | : | a system of economic regulation: wages and interest are tied to the cost-of-living index in order to reduce the effects of inflation (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | timing, |
| definition | : | the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics) (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | limitation, restriction, |
| definition | : | an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) (noun.act) |
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