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Deregulation
noun
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Noun
- 1 The process of removing constraints, especially government-imposed economic regulation. countable, uncountable
"Some say the airline industry has been profitable since the government began deregulation of it."
- 2 the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) wordnet
Etymology
From de- + regulation.
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