Regularize
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make regular.
Regulate
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To dictate policy.To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.To put or maintain in order: regulate one's eating habits.
Example sentence: After 1960, anyone who wanted to discuss almost any aspect of U.S. public policy - from how to make cars safer to whether to abolish the draft, from how to support the housing market to whether to regulate the financial sector - had to speak economics.