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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unregulated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
market
▪ Although we don't know it yet, the golden age of the unregulated market is past.
▪ Quite apart from market failure, another reason for rejecting unregulated market coordination is the inequality of social outcomes it produces.
▪ Each market is a free, unregulated market and is perfectly competitive.
▪ A deregulated market does not mean an unregulated market.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although we don't know it yet, the golden age of the unregulated market is past.
▪ But even if that step is taken, there still are likely to be myriad unregulated details.
▪ Each market is a free, unregulated market and is perfectly competitive.
▪ In 1992-93 a fifth of revenues will be unregulated.
▪ It has recently become an issue because it is so visible and entirely unregulated.
▪ It now leaves him free to criticise other results of the massively funded but unregulated conservation industry.
▪ Without these skills, we risk creating a new tier of unregulated and unaccountable decision-making.
Wiktionary
unregulated

a. Not regulated

WordNet
unregulated
  1. adj. not regulated; not subject to rule or discipline; "unregulated off-shore fishing" [ant: regulated]

  2. without regulation or discipline; "an unregulated environment"

Usage examples of "unregulated".

An unregulated chipper could influence other people emotions, you know, if they were chipped just right and had talent.

Since such unregulated experiments were performed with immoderate frequency throughout Southeast Asia after the turn of the century, it was not an unreasonable conclusion.

She staggered off leaving him holding on to the rail and staring at the grey unregulated ash on the deckboards.

There where the blocks were the highest and stood facing each other like giant building-blocks set on end, there was Wall Street, the centre of activity, where the stony growth seemed as though spurred on by the restless stir, the yet unregulated and uncomprehended instinct of accumulation.

In the past of unregulated private ownership the filching of portable objects and raids upon unguarded possessions were always going on.

This, Bordinesco pointed out, was the inevitable consequence of an unregulated progressive system of private enterprise.

Clarence forgot, with the artist himself, the disadvantages Warner had to encounter in the inexperience of an unregulated taste and an imperfect professional education.

But this class is, due to the unregulated proliferation of semi-fictional genealogies, exactly congruent to almost the entire population of Averidan.

I have today to enjoy my excessive and unregulated senses, in case they are gone by this time next week.

An unregulated chipper could influence other people emotions, you know, if they were chipped just right and had talent.

There were charges and actions against specific banks, accusations of corruption, mismanagement, bad loans and even bribes, but more and more Timmerman had begun to attack the structure as a whole, claiming that the laws themselves undermined the national economy through leveraged buyouts financed by unregulated banks, manipulated stock investments using information about paper loans and 'a suicidal breakdown of the necessary barriers between the people who lend the money and the people who spend it'.

Too much government tampering with it would be the case of killing the proverbial goose that laid the golden eggs, whereas the very productivity of an unregulated economy meant that even with lower tax rates, it would ultimately produce more total tax revenues in absolute terms.

Completely unregulated and unmonitored, these were the places to go for recipes for bombs and poisonous gases and debilitating computer viruses that would wipe the hard drives of half the population of the world.

The great majority of drug overdoses are caused by unknown, unregulated, and unlabeled purity factor.

The Salamanders invite one to unregulated passion when they first appear.