underregulate
To regulate inadequately.
Verb
- To regulate inadequately.
- “It’s not a question of overregulating or underregulating. - 2008 March 20, Diana B. Henriques, “Commodities: Latest Boom, Plentiful Risk”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2021:
Hypernyms: regulate
Coordinate Terms: deregulate overregulate
Origin
From under- + regulate.