0 the action of removing national or local government controls or rules from a business or other activity:
1 the process of removing government controls or rules from a business or other activity:
There were alarming increases in costs following deregulation of the wholesale electricity market.
They supported deregulation in the financial industries.
Deregulation law includes rules designed to see that competition develops.
In the shadow of market creation and deregulation, opportunity points arose for social policy innovation.
This involved the deregulation of markets, the privatisation of state-owned industries, and reform of the trade unions.
European deregulation began in traditional utilities industries such as telecommunications, energy and transport.
Carter himself had promised in his 1976 campaign to promote deregulation in the name of equity and efficiency and made the airlines his first target.
He concludes that there is no compelling case for the necessity of deregulation to increase economic productivity.
