規程|きていkitei[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounofficial regulations; inner rules

• Synonym会則かいそくNeutralRules or a charter of a society, club or other member organization. 「規程」 mostly means internal administrative rules of a company or agency.
• Synonym定めさだめWrittenWritten native word for an established rule or arrangement, and also for fate. 「規程」 refers only to clauses established as a set.
• Related規定きていNeutralCovers stipulations and their clauses in general, and also works as the verb 「規定する」. 「規程」 refers specifically to a set of rules drawn up for one purpose.
• Related規則きそくNeutralThe most general word for rules; it doesn't stress a unified set, though it can name one, like school rules. 「規程」 is a whole body of clauses for a specific purpose.
• Related法令ほうれいFormalFormal: national laws and the orders administrative agencies issue under them. 「規程」 is a set of clauses an organization or event sets for its own purposes.
• Related法度はっとNeutralMeans bans and prohibitions; today mostly in 「ご法度」 for things absolutely not allowed. Very different from an organization's administrative 「規程」.
• RelatedルールCasualColloquial loanword for rules of games and everyday life, the everyday default in speech. 「規程」 is a formally enacted, coherent set of written clauses.
• Related法ほうNeutralThe broadest term: laws and principles, but also methods and grammatical moods. 「規程」 only ever means a set of clauses made for a specific purpose.
• Related原則げんそくNeutralBasic principles or general rules; with 「原則として」 exceptions are allowed. 「規程」 is concrete rules written out as clauses.
• Related規律きりつNeutralDiscipline and order that a group keeps, as in 「規律正しい」. 「規程」 is administrative rules put in writing.
• Related本則ほんそくWrittenWritten: the original, formal rules, or a law's main body as opposed to 「附則」 and exceptions. 「規程」 is simply a full set of rules.
• Related戒律かいりつWrittenWritten: religious precepts, and by extension moral norms one must strictly keep. 「規程」 is an organization's written rules on procedures.
• Related掟おきてNeutralRules a village or community must observe, as in 「村の掟」 — traditional and coercive in flavor. 「規程」 is the regulation of a modern institution.
• Related条例じょうれいFormalFormal: laws a local government enacts by assembly resolution, as in 「東京都条例」. 「規程」 is a set of clauses an organization sets for its own purposes.
• Related準則じゅんそくWrittenWritten: rules or standards to be followed, common in administrative and accounting contexts. 「規程」 centers on an organization's internal rules.
• Related典則てんそくWrittenWritten and rare: rules that serve as a model to be followed. Say 「規則」 in daily life and 「規程」 for an organization's rules.
• Related律りつWrittenWritten: the criminal codes of ancient East Asia or Buddhist monastic rules, as in 「律令」. Not used for a modern set of clauses like 「規程」.
• Related定則ていそくWrittenWritten and rare: an established law or rule. 「規程」 is a set of clauses drawn up for one purpose.
• Related規矩きくWrittenWritten and rare: originally compass and ruler, by extension standards of conduct. 「規程」 is concrete written regulations.
• Related矩則くそくWrittenHighly literary and rare: norms or standards to follow. Say 「規則」 or 「基準」 normally, and 「規程」 for an organization's rules.

Use 「規程」 for a coherent set of clauses drawn up for one purpose, as in 「就業規程」 or 「競技規程」. For a single stipulation say 「規定」, for rules in general 「規則」 or, in speech, 「ルール」, and for a club's charter 「会則」. National law is 「法令」, local law 「条例」. 「準則」 (administrative, accounting), 「本則」, 「戒律」, 「典則」, 「律」, 「定則」, 「規矩」, 「矩則」 and 「定め」 are written or rare; 「法度」 and 「掟」 suggest prohibitions or old communal rules; 「原則」 allows exceptions and 「規律」 is discipline.

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1. 事務じむや手続てつづきなどに関かんする、ひとまとまりのきまり。
2. 一定いっていの目的もくてきのために定さだめられた一連いちれんの条項じょうこうの総体そうたいをいう。
3. 官公署かんこうしょ・会社かいしゃなどの内部ないぶの組織そしき・事務じむ執行しっこうを条文じょうぶん形式けいしきで定さだめた準則じゅんそく。