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What is the adjective for regulationists?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs regularize, regulate and regularise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

regular
  1. (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular). [from 14th c.]
  2. Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance. [from 15th c.]
  3. (polygon) Having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size [from 16th c.]
  4. (polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
  5. Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence. [from 16th c.]
  6. (now rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.). [from 16th c.]
  7. Happening at constant (especially short) intervals. [from 17th c.]
  8. (grammar) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of a given language. [from 17th c.]
  9. (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard. [from 17th c.]
  10. (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops. [from 17th c.]
  11. Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way. [from 18th c.]
  12. (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright. [from 18th c.]
  13. (botany) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
  14. (crystallography) isometric
  15. (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
  16. (analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
  17. Synonyms:
  18. Examples:
    1. “Our family lives in a regular home, in a regular suburb.”
      “You will need to file your complaint through the regular channels.”
      “My regular hairdresser has left town, and now I need to find a new one.”
regulative
  1. of, or relating to regulation
  2. having a regulatory function
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “To this end, a regulative framework of the African financial markets that conform to international best practices is being advocated.”
      “As we saw, Goldman is skeptical about the prospects of identifying and adequately formulating regulative doxastic principles.”
      “Still, the externalist conception of justified belief does seem descriptive, whereas the internalist conception is explicitly regulative.”
regulationist
regulable
  1. Of or pertaining to being controllable; able to be made subject to regulation.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The government could take steps to transform the architecture of the Internet to make it more regulable, thereby increasing national security.”
      “Bound growth factors also constitute a reservoir of growth factors that may be released in a regulable manner.”
      “Besides the feed motor effectuates also the advance of the support through a further friction gearing regulable by steps.”
regulation
  1. In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I see that you are wearing regulation uniform. A soldier takes pride in his war uniform, though this is a profession at which your people do not shine.”
regularizable
  1. Capable of regularization
regulatory
  1. Of or pertaining to regulation.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He said it was of great concern to him that unqualified practitioners in healthcare were not answerable to any regulatory authority.”
      “I can't imagine how they dared break the rules, with all those regulatory whackers waiting to pounce.”
      “Mutual recognition could become a platform for a regulatory race to the bottom.”
regulatable
  1. Able to be regulated
regularized
regularizing
regulated
regulating
regularised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of regularise
regularising
  1. present participle of regularise
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