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LEGISLATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of making or enacting laws
Synonyms:
lawmaking; legislating; legislation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("legislation" is a kind of...):
administration; governance; governing; government; government activity (the act of governing; exercising authority)
Domain category:
legislation; statute law (law enacted by a legislative body)
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Domain member category:
reconsider (consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it)
filibuster (obstruct deliberately by delaying)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legislation"):
criminalisation; criminalization (legislation that makes something illegal)
decriminalisation; decriminalization (legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal)
enactment; passage (the passing of a law by a legislative body)
Derivation:
legislate (make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Law enacted by a legislative body
Synonyms:
legislation; statute law
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("legislation" is a kind of...):
civil law (the body of laws established by a state or nation for its own regulation)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Domain member category:
lawmaking; legislating; legislation (the act of making or enacting laws)
Department of Justice; DoJ; Justice; Justice Department (the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870)
unamended ((of legislation) not amended)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legislation"):
enabling legislation (legislation that gives appropriate officials the authority to implement or enforce the law)
federal job safety law; occupational safety and health act (a law passed by the United States Congress that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment)
Holonyms ("legislation" is a part of...):
statute book (a record of the whole body of legislation in a given jurisdiction)
Derivation:
legislate (make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation)
