Meaning Of Self-regulating In English - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of self-regulating in English self-regulatingadjective uk /ˌselfˈreɡ.jə.leɪ.tɪŋ/ us /ˌselfˈreɡ.jə.leɪ.t̬ɪŋ/ (also self-regulatory, uk/ˌself reɡ.jəˈleɪ.tər.i/ us/ˌself ˈreɡ.jə.lə.tɔːr.i/) Add to word list Add to word list making certain yourself that you or your employees obey rules, rather than having laws or another organization to do it: a self-regulating body/organization A self-regulating device, system, etc. is able to control its own temperature, speed, etc. and keep it at the correct level: The human body is an amazing self-regulating organism until you start to mess with it. See self-regulation

• 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.

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Self-control and moderation (Definition of self-regulating from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

self-regulating | Business English

self-regulatingadjective uk us Add to word list Add to word list LAW, HR   (also self-regulatory) 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. used to describe a system, machine, etc. that is able to correct itself when things begin to go wrong, without outside help: The proposal is to make the system self-regulating by arranging for any pollutant from the factory to foul the factory process water. Trade deficits have a self-regulating element. See also self-correcting (Definition of self-regulating from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of self-regulating

self-regulating For this reason, parasites have developed sophisticated self-regulating mechanisms to evade the immune response and to avoid being destroyed by the host. From the Cambridge English Corpus The gap between end effector and non-rigid product is to some extent self-regulating and imposes local rigidity which is useful during manipulation. From the Cambridge English Corpus This perspective rightly points us to the construction of evaluation as a strongly self-regulating strategy of governance. From the Cambridge English Corpus In this way the system is self-regulating, with delivery of the toxic pollutant to the microorganisms being 'driven' by cellular demand. From the Cambridge English Corpus They are self-regulating because their speakers want to understand each other and be understood. From the Cambridge English Corpus By way of analogy, service conduits symbolised a self-regulating, closed loop of information. From the Cambridge English Corpus The panoptic society works to produce subjects through the imposition of an array of self-regulating disciplinary regimes. From the Cambridge English Corpus Examples from evolutionary breeding in barley demonstrate the self-regulating capacity of a diverse bulk population. From the Cambridge English Corpus 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. From the Cambridge English Corpus In addition, we compared the frontier of the firms with an autonomous regulator to the frontier of the self-regulating firms. From the Cambridge English Corpus 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. From the Cambridge English Corpus Languages are self-regulating systems which can be left to take care of themselves. From the Cambridge English Corpus There is no assumption here that the rational ordering of human behavior could be spontaneously produced by self-regulating forces. From the Cambridge English Corpus Nor is the economy understood to be structurally self-regulating. From the Cambridge English Corpus 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. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of self-regulating These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of self-regulating? What is the pronunciation of self-regulatory?

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