REGULATORY AUTHORITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regulatory authority mean? 

• REGULATORY AUTHORITY (noun)
  The noun REGULATORY AUTHORITY has 1 sense:

1. a governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest

  Familiarity information: REGULATORY AUTHORITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGULATORY AUTHORITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

regulatory agency; regulatory authority

Hypernyms ("regulatory authority" is a kind of...):

administrative body; administrative unit (a unit with administrative responsibilities)

 Context examples 

These trials may be required as a condition of regulatory authority approval.

(Phase IIIb Trial, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This type of trial may be required as a condition of regulatory authority approval.

(Phase IIIb Trial, NCI Thesaurus)

A category used to describe the registration status of a clinical study investigator with the regulatory authority agency, such as the FDA, or the investigator activity status within a particular study.

(Investigator Status, NCI Thesaurus)

A RegulatoryRecord - A document that meets a record requirement of a regulatory authority and must be retained in accordance with that agency's records retention requirements.

(Document Type Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)