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regulatorreg‧u‧la‧tor /ˈreɡjəleɪtə $ -ər/ AWL noun [countable]   - A judge refused last week a request by rival insurers to remove the Pennsylvania regulator from ruling on the case.
- For years, vintners lobbied regulators without success for permission to advertise therapeutic or curative effects of wine.
- Politicians and regulators have connived in that illusion-and continue to do so.
- The Bill puts the customer first by giving stronger powers to the regulators of telecommunications, gas, electricity and water.
- The Commission also advocates separation between operators and regulators.
- The thrifts, many of which were forced into insolvency, say the change violated contractual promises that federal thrift regulators.
- Yet the regulators have given it a dispensation: the rubbish has to go somewhere.
► Engineeringboiler, nouncamshaft, nounchuck, nouncollar, nounconsole, nouncylinder, noundecompress, verbdiggings, noundrag, nounengagement, nounengine, nounengineer, nounengineer, verbexhaust, nounhydraulics, nounlubricant, nounlubricate, verbmetal fatigue, nounperformance, nounpipe fitter, nounpipeline, nounpiston, nounplunger, nounregulator, nounrig, nounrivet, verbrotary, adjectivesafety valve, nounseparator, nounshaft, nounshockproof, adjectivesparking plug, nounspark plug, nounspindle, nounstarter, nounstreamline, verbtheodolite, nountorsion, nountruss, nountune, verbtune-up, nountunnel, verbturboprop, nounwind tunnel, noun ADJECTIVE► antitrust· The potential concentration of those activities might also prompt antitrust regulators to give any merger close scrutiny, Threlfall said. ► federal· Four days after he opened, federal regulators demanded a redesign to better accommodate the disabled.· The Federal Reserve and regulators in Delaware, where the banks are incorporated, approved the merger Friday.· The banks, in turn, claimed that their hands were tied by federal regulators who discouraged them from lending.· He has asked that the probes determine whether implant manufacturers withheld from federal regulators key studies on possible dangers of implants.· Last year, complaints from investors led federal regulators to start looking into the firm.· There was testimony, lots of it, on how to fix a safety device Congress and federal regulators once deemed perfect.· The thrifts, many of which were forced into insolvency, say the change violated contractual promises that federal thrift regulators. ► financial· London's regulatory mess New legislation is needed to clear it up FINANCIAL regulators are never short of critics.· Well not according to the Financial Services Authority, Britain's chief financial regulator. NOUN► industry· Societies are still very strongly capitalised, according to figures from the Building Society Commission, the industry regulator. ► rail· The system will be held together and policed by a franchising authority and a rail regulator. ► state· Congress and state regulators could speed up the construction of pipelines.· The education program, ordered by state regulators, is the largest undertaken by a phone company.· Cigna said it wants to resolve any disputes with the other 42 state regulators that could hurt insurance sales in those areas.· Insurers learned that the state regulators would, during the panic, give away the store in rate increases.· So state regulators are imposing a moratorium on new sewer hookups. VERB► bank· The bidders also need approval by the Federal Reserve and other banking regulators. nounregulationregulatoradjectiveregulatoryverbregulate 1an instrument for controlling the temperature, speed etc of something:  a heat regulator2someone who makes sure that a system operates properly or fairly: traffic safety regulators |