0 a powerful government organization whose job is to be sure that companies in a particular industry operate and compete fairly:
The Financial Services Authority is the UK's super-regulator.
We should set up an independent, super-regulator with powers to call people to account, to investigate, to prosecute, to fine, to disqualify—all the necessary controls.
That is indicative of the power and luxury in which some of our super-regulators think that they will be able to bask at the expense of those whom they regulate.