VERB | social | regularise, regulate, regularize, order, govern | bring into conformity with rules or principles / principles or usage |
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change | regularise, regularize | make regular or more regular |
Meaning | Bring into conformity with rules or principles / principles or usage; impose regulations. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
Synonyms | regulate, regularize, order, govern | |
Narrower | standardize, standardise | Cause to conform to standard or norm |
zone, district | regulate housing in | |
Broader | decide, make up one's mind, determine | reach, make, or come to a decision about something |
Opposite | deregulate | Lift the regulations on |
Spanish | normar, regir, regularizar, regular | |
Catalan | normar, ordenar, regir, regularitzar, regular |
Meaning | make regular or more regular. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
Synonym | regularize | |
Narrower | even, even out | make even / even / even / even / even or more even / even / even / even / even |
Broader | arrange, set up | put into a proper or systematic order |
Spanish | regularizar | |
Catalan | regularitzar | |
Nouns | regularisation | the act of bringing to uniformity |
regularisation | the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) |
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