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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-regulatory
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Equally, much financial services regulation prior to the eighties was self-regulatory.
▪ It could be argued that this is far more likely to occur to a self-regulatory body than to a statutory body.
▪ It is important to discuss whether the self-regulatory regime has increased the level of either.
▪ It is important to recognize that intellectual development is a self-regulatory process.
▪ This may herald a move to a less self-regulatory approach to supervision of the financial services industry.
▪ Under the Financial Services Act, each self-regulatory organisation must have in place a system for dealing with consumer complaints.
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self-regulatory

a. That regulates without external control or monitoring

Usage examples of "self-regulatory".

Self-regulatory perseveration and the depressive self-focusing style: A self-awareness theory of reactive depression.