#regulating__regulation  the act of regulating; "fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians"
  supertype:  control  the activity of managing or exerting control over something; "the control of the mob by the police was admirable"
  subtype:  autoregulation  (physiology) maintaining a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism
  subtype:  devaluation.regulating  an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries
  subtype:  gun_control__guncontrol  efforts to regulate or control sales of guns
  subtype:  indexation  a system of economic regulation: wages and interest are tied to the cost-of-living index in order to reduce the effects of inflation
  subtype:  coordination  the regulation of diverse elements into an integrated and harmonious operation
     subtype:  synchronization__synchronisation__synchronizing  coordinating by causing to indicate the same time; "the synchronization of their watches was an important preliminary"
     subtype:  proration  the proportional limitation of production or distribution of something (e.g. crude oil or natural gas) to some fractional part of the total capacity of each producer
  subtype:  limitation__restriction  an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)
     subtype:  load-shedding  cutting off the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply
     subtype:  arms_control  a limitation on the size and armament of the armed forces of a country
     subtype:  freeze  fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level: "a freeze on hiring"
        subtype:  hiring_freeze  freeze on hiring
        subtype:  price_freeze__pricefreeze  freeze of prices at a given level
        subtype:  wage_freeze  freeze of wages at a given level
     subtype:  clampdown  sudden restriction on an activity

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