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    LEGISLATIVE ACT

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An act passed by a legislative bodyplay

    Synonyms:

    legislative act; statute

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("legislative act" is a kind of...):

    act; enactment (a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body)

    Meronyms (parts of "legislative act"):

    rider (a clause that is appended to a legislative bill)

    Domain category:

    jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legislative act"):

    fair-trade act (formerly a state law that protected manufacturers from price-cutting by allowing them to set minimum retail prices for their merchandise; eliminated by the United States Congress in 1975)

    Stamp Act (an act passed by the British Parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American Colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents; opposition by the Colonies resulted in the repeal of the act in 1766)

    enabling act; enabling clause (a provision in a law that confers on appropriate officials the power to implement or enforce the law)

    FISA; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (an act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; intended to increase United States counterintelligence; separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance)

    ordinance (a statute enacted by a city government)

    special act (a legislative act that applies only to a particular person or particular district)

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