0 to remove official control on something, especially prices and businesses: --
Prices have been decontrolled and markets are flourishing.
1 to remove the laws or rules which control something, especially prices and financial markets: --
The exchange market and capital transfers have been decontrolled, and there are no restrictions on foreign investment.
2 the act of removing the laws or rules which control something, especially prices and financial markets: --
Creeping decontrol is not itself the cause of the trouble.
During the decontrolling phase, however, nobody knows where the danger lurks.
Is not it monstrous that hundreds of thousands of tenants in slums will be decontrolled in this way?
Their houses are to be decontrolled, and they are to be turned adrift into the open market to pay any rent that may be demanded.
I understand that the rents of these old controlled tenancies cannot be reviewed until after the rents of decontrolled tenants have been reviewed.
In a memorandum put before the final meeting of the cabinet committee he suggested that the effects of decontrol were less serious than was originally thought.
Far from contracting as a result of decontrol, the informal sector has, they believe, expanded in line with growth in the real economies of their four countries.
I have always believed that, despite all the risks, there ought to be an immediate block decontrol.
