regulate

Verb

1. To dictate policy.
2. To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
   • the laws which regulate the succession of the seasons - 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London:...
   • The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police. - 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please...
   • But on Tuesday, Sam Altman[…] testified before members of a Senate subcommittee and largely agreed with them on the need to regulate the increasingly powerful A.I. technology being created inside his company and others...
3. To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
   • to regulate a watch, i.e. adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time
   • to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
4. To put or maintain in order.
   • to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances
   • to regulate one's eating habits