Regulates
[reɡjuleits]
Examples
- The quantity of money which he gets for them regulates, too, the quantity of bread and beer which he can afterwards purchase. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Except in particular situations, therefore, the rent of corn land regulates in Europe that of all other cultivated land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Necessity makes it usual for almost every man to be so, and custom everywhere regulates fashion. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Their wages are not greater than those of common labourers at the port which regulates the rate of seamen's wages. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In Scotland, there is no general law which regulates universally the duration of apprenticeships. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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