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: --
From this failure, one learned of the economic necessity of a free, self-regulating market and its constitutional accouterments - private property, individual rights, and the rule of law.
Nor is the economy understood to be structurally self-regulating.
There is no assumption here that the rational ordering of human behavior could be spontaneously produced by self-regulating forces.
Languages are self-regulating systems which can be left to take care of themselves.
Thus, non-liberal orders are dangerous simply because they signify an uncivilised condition, in contrast with civilised individuated individuals who are rational and self-regulating.
In addition, we compared the frontier of the firms with an autonomous regulator to the frontier of the self-regulating firms.
During toddlerhood, the ability to use self-regulating behaviors becomes critical as the child gains independence, control, and an identity separate from that of the caregiver.
Examples from evolutionary breeding in barley demonstrate the self-regulating capacity of a diverse bulk population.
