Plural of deregulation; multiple instances, policies, or processes of removing government rules and controls from industries or markets.
Plural form of 'deregulation,' which itself comes from 'de-' plus 'regulation.' The word became common in economic policy discussions in the 1970s and 1980s.
The 1980s were called the 'deregulation decade' because so many industries—airlines, banking, telecommunications—all got deregulated at once, leading to both innovation and spectacular failures.
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