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regulative

adjective as in regulatory

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adjective as in standardizing

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Intention in such matters was of primary importance, since all duties were likely to be regulative to some extent.

The new regulative power is determined by the mass and gravity of the earth.

In the latter, regulative power would really reside in the judicial branch of the government.

The regulative power of the Federal government over routes and the division of joint rates is satisfactorily upheld.

The former is in a sense a regulative and conservative principle which lays down limits beyond which variation may not stray.

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On this page you'll find 102 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to regulative, such as: bureaucratic, departmental, governmental, legislative, managerial, and organizational.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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