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means The act of removing government rules and oversight from an industry or market, loosening controls that previously governed how it could operate.

from Built from the prefix 'de-' (undoing, removal) plus 'regulation,' from Latin 'regula' meaning a rule or straight stick used for measuring — the same root that gives us 'regular.' 'Regulation' as a term for government rule-making took hold in economic and legal language particularly through the 20th century, and 'deregulation' emerged as its natural opposite once governments had regulatory bodies worth dismantling — a word that couldn't exist until the thing it undoes was already firmly built.