🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

não regulamentado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: nãw reh-goo-lah-men-tah-doo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Non-regulated/nɒnˈreɡ.jə.leɪ.tɪd/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Eles investem em um mercado não regulamentado."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Not controlled or supervised by rules, laws, or official authorities.

    "The supplement is sold in a completely non-regulated market."
  2. 2

    Lacking formal rules or standardization in operation or structure.

    "They operate within a non-regulated financial sector prone to volatility."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the prefix 'non-' (from Latin 'non', meaning 'not') combined with 'regulated', the past participle of 'regulate' (from Late Latin 'regulatus', past participle of 'regulare', from Latin 'regula' meaning rule). It emerged in modern usage to describe activities, substances, or entities free from governmental or official oversight.

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