0 making certain yourself that you or your employees obey rules, rather than having laws or another organization to do it:
1 used to describe an industry, profession, etc. that checks that its members act according to particular rules, rather than having this done by another organization:
a self-regulatory body/organization The HKSA is a self-regulatory body governing the professional conduct of accounting professionals in Hong Kong.
2 used to describe a system, machine, etc. that is able to correct itself when things begin to go wrong, without outside help:
They envisioned the website as a self-regulating marketplace where users are responsible for their trades.
Though the institute has imposed tougher standards during the last decade, the industry remains self-regulating.
The government is not testing for toxic chemicals in toys, and too many manufacturers are not self-regulating.
The tool's temperature controller is self-regulating and keeps the heating element at a steady 130°C.
The embryos are mostly self-regulating, because they arrest naturally at 32 cells.
The Gaia hypothesis is that the planet is itself a self-regulating organism.
This lush green mountainous island, with one of the best all-year-round climates in the world, is also a huge self-regulating reservoir which holds up to 200 million cubic metres of water.
He challenges the idea that immigration is a self-regulating process that rises and falls in step with the economy.
