regulate.
To dictate policy.
Meaning & usage
To dictate policy.
To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
to regulate a watch, i.e. adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time
to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
To put or maintain in order.
to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances
to regulate one's eating habits
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin regulatus, perfect passive participle of regulō (“to direct, rule, regulate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from regula (“rule”), from regō (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”). Compare regle, rail. Displaced native Old English metegian.
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