nonregulation
English edit
Etymology edit
non- + regulation
Noun edit
nonregulation (countable and uncountable, plural nonregulations)
- (uncountable) Absence of regulation.
- Nonregulation of the market led to an eventual collapse.
- (countable) That which is not a regulation.
- 2008, Richard Chin, Bruce Y. Lee, Principles and Practice of Clinical Trial Medicine, page 243:
- In addition to regulations, there are nonregulations that are important. For example, the policy at most major medical journals that they will only publish studies that had been prospectively listed in a public clinical trial database.
Adjective edit
nonregulation (not comparable)
- Not according to regulations.
- 2012, Richard M. Abrams, Street Games: Bygone Times in Brooklyn:
- So we played a nonregulation one-wall handball game.