The phrase "a wave of deregulation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant and widespread reduction of government regulations in a particular industry or sector.
Example: "The recent economic reforms have led to a wave of deregulation, allowing businesses to operate with greater freedom."
Alternatives: "a surge of deregulation" or "a tide of deregulation".
Those reforms were soon unwound by aggressive lobbying on the part of colleges and a wave of deregulation Congress pursued in the mid-90s.
* International financial centers, especially in London and Tokyo, are experiencing a wave of deregulation that makes them more attractive to foreign investors.
Facing little organized resistance, Pai is establishing himself as the vanguard for a wave of deregulation that could set the tone for industry for years.
The theoretical idea he was proudest of that only markets, not governments, could gather and disperse price knowledge effectively—helped inspire a wave of deregulation and privatisation.
There was a wave of deregulation and privatisation, and the cult of shareholder value a trend in which unions were kept very much in the background.
One was the beginning of a wave of deregulation, starting with the airline industry, that broke a long spell in which the government had steadily taken a more active role in the economy.
Since then, the broadband industry has benefited from a wave of federal deregulation, including a decision by the FCC to repeal its net neutrality rules.
But starting in the 1980s, a wave of financial deregulation eroded the law, and Congress ultimately repealed the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999.
This was the day known as the "Big Bang," on which a sudden wave of deregulation swept through London's financial markets.
Most people date the city's current flourishing — the money, the food, the art, the good-looking people, the tourists astonished at the cost of public transport, the tech dreamers, the Russians digging out basement saunas, the coffee — more or less to 1986, and a wave of Thatcherite financial deregulation known as the Big Bang.
My colleague Robert W. Poole Jr., director of transportation studies at the Reason Public Policy Institute, calls regional jets the third wave of deregulation, promising a breathtaking expansion of point-to-point service to hundreds of new pairs of cities.
