non-regulationn.
/ˌnɒnrɛɡjᵿˈleɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌnɑnˌrɛɡjəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ I. Compounds (attributive).
1. Of a province in India during British rule: in which the ordinary laws are not in force. Now historical.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [adjective] > relating to large division > type of Indian province
non-regulation1846
1846 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 9 326 The blanks in the tables from the non-regulation provinces result from the non-receipt of the returns for 1843 and 1844.
1854 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. Brit. India (ed. 3) 122 The whole of the provinces, regulation and non-regulation, cover 325,652 square miles.
1881 Sir W. Hunter in Encycl. Brit. XII. 769/1 Alike in regulation and in non-regulation territory the unit of administration is the district.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 655/2 A survival of the ‘non-regulation’ system is to be found in the title of deputy-commissioner.
1931 H. K. Trevaskis Punjab of To-day I. i. 139 The Punjab was never specifically so annexed, and was therefore called a Non-Regulation Province.
1997 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 56 90 This [resumption of a system of conservancy] coincides with the brief giving up in the 1860s..of the nonregulation system of administration in Bengal.
2. gen. Not regulation; that does not conform to a standard or rule.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [adjective] > deviating from rule or standard
exorbitant1534
unorthodox1629
aberrant1778
aberrated1786
divergent1801
radical1869
nonstandard1870
non-regular1896
non-regulation1953
non-conformant1960
alternative1962
sideways1969
alternate1970
marginala1988
alt1988
1953 Philos. Rev. 62 168 We can contrast the stock or standard use of a fish-knife..with some non-regulation use of it.
1974 L. Niven & J. Pournelle Mote in God's Eye (1975) iii. xxi. 316 Null-gee races were a favorite if slightly nonregulation game with midshipmen.
1997 GQ Sept. 211/2 They lifted their skirts and lowered their extremely non-regulation underwear, exposing stunningly sculpted bottoms.
II. Simple uses.
3. The principle or practice of not regulating; a lack of regulation.
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1889 W. G. Eccleston in N. Amer. Rev. 487 Still another result of non-regulation of the colleges and medical education has been to overstock the country with doctors.
1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 302 This period of non-regulation not only succeeds one regulatory phase, but precedes another.
1947 Econ. Jrnl. 57 208 The subject has been extensively studies in recent years and both the difficulties of regulation and the characteristic vices of non-regulation are fairly widely understood.
1998 S. Hopgood Amer. Foreign Environm. Policy & Power of State 51 In the mid-1980s the business community shifted its stance on CFC elimination, favouring more universal regulation, but sceptics continued to work for a non-regulatory approach... They lost ground because a key piece of ‘ammunition’, that business was in support of non-regulation, changed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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