underregulated

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ regulated.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

underregulated (comparative more underregulated, superlative most underregulated)

1. Insufficiently regulated.

   Antonym: overregulated

   Hypernym: regulated

   Coordinate terms: deregulated, unregulated

   • 2007 July 7, David Barboza, “China Sentences Official to Death for Corruption”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “This is a harsh but probably necessary strategy to re-establish control over an underregulated sector,” David Zweig […] said of the death-sentence verdict.

Related terms

• deregulation
• dysregulated
• underregulation

Verb

underregulated

1. simple past and past participle of underregulate