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deregulation

dee reg yuh lay shuhn

  • n  the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations)

  • The reason the card industry is free to raise prices on existing customers at any time and for any reason is tied to deregulation, which began in banking in the 1970s and .
  • The entire mess flows not only from a deregulation plan that did not live up to the word deregulation but also from California's failure to complete a single large power plant over .
  • Maybe, it suddenly seemed to many shocked onlookers, electricity deregulation wasn't such a great idea after all.
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  • Barack Obama in FOXNews
    There's only one candidate who's called himself 'fundamentally a deregulator' when deregulation is part of the problem,Obama said during an appearance at Bethune-Cookman University, arranged to highlight his campaign's effort to reach out to...
  • Charles Schumer in International Herald Tribune
    The unregulated corners of our economy did much to contribute to the meltdown in our housing market and the accompanying spillover to our financial markets,Schumer said in a statement. "The administration's 'deregulation-above-all-else'...
  • Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney Morning Herald
    He wrote a long piece recently in which he accused the Liberal Party of free market extremism and one of the things he gave as an example of that was deregulation and privatisation,Mr Turnbull said. "The considerable wealth of the Rudd...

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