regulative

An adjective meaning serving to regulate or control; now largely replaced by 'regulatory' in modern usage.

• 🇨🇳形容词，指用于调节、控制或规范的；在现代用法中很大程度上已被“regulatory”取代。

1. Controlling or Restricting C1 formal

   Serving to control, direct, or restrict according to established rules or principles.

   • The regulative framework ensures fair competition among businesses.
   • Regulative policies are in place to protect consumer rights.
   • The committee issued regulative guidelines for the new project.

   🇨🇳规制的

   同义词: controllingdirectivegoverninglimitingprescriptiveregulatoryrestrictive

   反义词: freepermissiveunrestrictive

• more regulative comparative form
• most regulative superlative form