- to make necessary adjustments automatically or by means of built-in or internal mechanisms: She argued that state interventions do not allow the market to self-regulate through its own feedback loops.Our focus will be on finding ways to allow electronic systems to self-regulate the amount of energy they use.
- to govern oneself by voluntarily creating and following one’s own rules or guidelines, as for a particular area of oversight: The transport agency is cracking down after years of relying on trucking companies to self-regulate their safety standards.
- to monitor and cope with one’s emotions, physical states, thoughts, and behavior in healthy, socially acceptable ways: We teach parents strategies to help their children learn to self-regulate.Eventually he began to self-regulate his feelings of anxiety and take more risks.
