govern

(v) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
- We cannot regulate the way people dress
- This town likes to regulate
regularise, regularize, regulate, order,
(v) direct or strongly influence the behavior of
- His belief in God governs his conduct
(v) exercise authority over; as of nations
- Who is governing the country now?
rule,
(v) require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood
- most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German

regularise regularize regulate order rule

deregulate

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