underregulate
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underregulate (third-person singular simple present underregulates, present participle underregulating, simple past and past participle underregulated)
- To regulate inadequately.
- Hypernym: regulate
- Coordinate terms: deregulate, overregulate
- 2008 March 20, Diana B. Henriques, “Commodities: Latest Boom, Plentiful Risk”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 March 2021:
- “It’s not a question of overregulating or underregulating.