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deregulate

verb as in remove imposed controls on a system

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With deregulated business and privatized public services and natural resources, the system helped make Chile a haven for foreign investors and one of the richest countries in South America.

From Time

On the deregulated, idiosyncratic Texas power market, REPs generally purchase wholesale electricity from power generators and sell it to customers.

This is the gamble at the heart of a deregulated electricity market, in which companies compete to produce and sell electricity, as opposed to a monopoly system with rates fixed by regulators.

From Quartz

Many energy experts say the very nature of the state’s deregulated electric market is perhaps most to blame for last week’s power crisis.

In 1999, Texas joined more than a dozen other states in “deregulating” its electricity system, meaning that it switched from a monopoly power provider to a marketplace of competing power plants and retail utilities.

From Quartz

This former Goldman Sachs partner has frustrated many progressives by working hard to deregulate Wall Street.

Their Reaganite Republican adversaries, by contrast, want to deregulate it radically.

One, deregulate everything so that banks can start placing bets agaist their own securities.

The former press secretary criticized GOP plans to increase tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulate banks and Wall Street.

Should we fix the ratings agencies by regulating them more stringently, or do we need to deregulate and increase competition?

We seek to fully deregulate natural gas to bring on new supplies and bring us closer to energy independence.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deregulate, such as: decontrol, denationalize, leave be, let alone, not interfere, and not meddle.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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