decontrolling
Removing government oversight
Decontrolling is the act of removing government controls or regulations from something, typically prices, industries, or markets.
When authorities decontrol a sector, they allow market forces rather than official mandates to determine outcomes.
The government began decontrolling oil prices in the 1980s.
The term appears most often in economic and policy contexts, where it overlaps with deregulation.
Reducing state economic controls
- privatizationState sells public assets
- marketizationConverting to commerce-driven systems
- deregulatingReducing governmental oversight
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
unshackling · unfettering · loosening · relaxation · freeing · unbinding · unleashing · streamlining
Distributing power from center
- devolutionTransferring power locally
- delegationTransferring responsibility downward
- self-governanceIndependent management of affairs
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
self-determination · empowerment · subsidiarity · self-regulation · self-management · independence · sovereignty · federalism
Sustained price level increase
Power to do work
- telecommunicationsRemote signal transmission technology
- airlinesCommercial flight operators
- bankingFinancial institution transactions
- utilitiesEssential infrastructure services
transportation · broadcasting · oil · gas · electricity · water · railways · trucking
liberalization
Reducing state economic controls
- privatizationState sells public assets
- marketizationConverting to commerce-driven systems
- deregulatingReducing governmental oversight
laissez-faire · unshackling · unfettering · loosening · relaxation · freeing · unbinding · unleashing · streamlining · simplifying
decentralization
Distributing power from center
- devolutionTransferring power locally
- delegationTransferring responsibility downward
- self-governanceIndependent management of affairs
autonomy · self-determination · empowerment · subsidiarity · self-regulation · self-management · independence · sovereignty · federalism · privatization
inflation
Sustained price level increase
energy
Power to do work
- telecommunicationsRemote signal transmission technology
- airlinesCommercial flight operators
- bankingFinancial institution transactions
utilities · transportation · broadcasting · oil · gas · electricity · water · railways · trucking · insurance
decontrollingcontrolling
Exerting authority over others
regulating · restricting · constraining · legislating · reregulating
decontrollingcracking down
Enforcing more strictly
monitoring · policing · scrutinizing · micromanaging · intervening
control, controller, controlled, controlling, uncontrollable, controls, uncontrolled, controllable, uncontrollably