underregulate
English
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[edit]underregulate (third-person singular simple present underregulates, present participle underregulating, simple past and past participle underregulated)
- To regulate inadequately.
- Hypernym: regulate
- Coordinate terms: deregulate, overregulate
- 2008 March 20, Diana B. Henriques, “Commodities: Latest Boom, Plentiful Risk”, in New York Times[1]:
- It’s not a question of overregulating or underregulating.