The on off spigot regulates the flow of water into your bathtub. When a government regulates an industry, they set standards the industry must follow. To regulate means to impose control.
Verb
check the emission of (sound)
Verb
fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of; "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch"
Verb
shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"
Verb
bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"
v. t.
To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to
direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or
laws.
v. t.
To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered
state of a nation or its finances.
v. t.
To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired
rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room,
the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
Usage Examples
My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.
We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
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Other Usage ExamplesGovernment's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.
But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.
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