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verb

deregulate

lift the regulations on

In a sentence

Six example sentences with deregulate, each labelled with its topic.

  • When lawmakers moved to deregulate the airline industry, dozens of new carriers entered routes that had been closed for decades.

    Economics

  • Proposals to deregulate coastal building drew objections from towns that had spent years mapping which dunes must stay untouched.

    Environment

  • Once the state chose to deregulate consumer lending, storefront lenders opened without the licensing checks the old statute demanded.

    Finance

  • The new government promised to deregulate trucking within its first hundred days, and the bill passed on day ninety.

    Politics

  • When the country chose to deregulate telephone service, three rival networks strung cable down the same streets within a year.

    Technology

  • The city voted to deregulate taxi licenses, and within months the fare from the airport had dropped by a third.

    Travel

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