regularise
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Definition
- Verb:
- To make something regular, more uniform, or consistent in pattern, frequency, or behavior.
- To bring something into conformity with established rules, principles, or standards; to impose order or regulation.
Usage and Examples
- Verb:
- The new software will help regularise the data entry process, eliminating inconsistencies.
- A primary goal of the treaty was to regularise trade relations between the two countries.
- The government passed a law to regularise the status of long-term undocumented residents.
Advanced Usage
- "to regularise a situation": To bring an irregular or unofficial situation into a proper, legal, or officially recognized state.
- The amnesty program aimed to regularise the situation of thousands of migrant workers.
- Used in formal, administrative, legal, and technical contexts to describe the act of standardizing or making something compliant.
Variants and Related Words
- Regularize (verb): An alternative spelling, identical in meaning and usage to 'regularise'. The '-ise' ending is common in British English, while '-ize' is common in American English.
- Regularisation / Regularization (noun): The process or result of making something regular.
- The regularisation of his immigration status was a great relief.
- Regular (adjective): Conforming to a standard or pattern; usual.
Synonyms
- Standardize: To cause to conform to a standard.
- Systematize: To arrange according to a system.
- Normalize: To bring or return to a normal or standard condition.
- Regulate: To control or direct according to a rule, principle, or law.
Antonyms
- Disrupt: To interrupt the normal course or unity of.
- Disorganize: To destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or orderly connection of.
- Derange: To throw into disorder; disarrange.
Verb
- make regular or more regular
- regularize the heart beat with a pace maker
- bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
- We cannot regulate the way people dress
- This town likes to regulate