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de•reg•u•late
Pronunciation: (dē-reg'yu-lāt"), [key]
—v., -lat•ed, -lat•ing.
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v.t.
to remove government regulatory controls from (an industry, a commodity, etc.):
to deregulate the trucking industry; to deregulate oil prices.
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v.i.
to undergo deregulation:
Some banks have already started to deregulate. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.