What is "deregulated"

Usage examples of "deregulated".

For four years prices were frozen--at above-average levels--but so was competition, which is supposed to increase in a deregulated market.

And that is the true wisdom of the deregulated marketplace in electricity: the brilliant method by which profits are privatized and losses socialized.

A former Republican governor, Pete Wilson, deregulated electric utilities three years ago, claiming that competition would result in lower rates to the consumer.