Unregulated

adj

adj ·5 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not regulated: not subject to any regulations.

    "Being so inflexible, the railway was easy prey to road competition, and the arrival of unregulated lorry transport from farm fields to town centres quickly captured all locally generated business."

Adjective
  1. 1
    without regulation or discipline wordnet
  2. 2
    not regulated; not subject to rule or discipline wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
non regulatednon-regulatednonregulatedunstructured

Example

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"Holistic medicine is largely unregulated so has a greater share of quacks."

Etymology

From un- + regulated.

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