Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of legislating; lawmaking.
- n. A proposed or enacted law or group of laws.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The enacting of laws or statutes; the exercise of the power of legislating; the business of a legislator or a legislature.
- n. The product of legislative action; a law or the laws promulgated by a legislator or a legislature; a statute, or a body of statutory law: as, the legislation of Moses is contained in the Pentateuch.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.
- n. Law which has been enacted by legislature or other governing body
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.
WordNet 3.0
- n. law enacted by a legislative body
- n. the act of making or enacting laws
Etymologies
- From Late Latin lēgislātiō ("the giving of the law"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The intention in the final constitution should be to introduce a framework whereby the judicial determination of the pre-eminence of national legislation is replaced by the requirement that the provinces themselves through the Senate conclusively establish the desirability of the relevant national legislation*.”
“That the abolition of slavery is within the sphere of legislation, I argue, _secondly_, from the fact, that _slavery as a legal system, is the creature of legislation_.”
“_Don't propose any "local" legislation_; for in progressive states, local game legislation is coming strongly into disfavor, -- just as it should!”
“desirable" in terms of the requirements stated in 4.17 above if such legislation has been approved by the Senate, and further if such dispute cannot be resolved by a court by a construction of the constitution, precedence shall be given to national legislation*.”
“The McCain legislation is not “anti-torture” it is much broader than that.”
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“In fact, this legislation is an excellent example of that.”
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“This legislation is absolutely going to destroy the middle class.”
“I guess all that other legislation is a problem too.”
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“If this legislation is as important as they say it is, then why not take the time to do it right??”
“This legislation is about life and death, who can take their children to the doctor and who cannot, who can afford decent health care coverage and who are left to fend for themselves.”
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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accession, acquis, act, action, agenda, agreement, aid, area, assistance, association, base, budget and 88 more...
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ulterior, warrant, syllogism, precious, impiety, maroon, aigrette, batiste, topsy-turvy ago, midnight crush, cantankerous, slovenly and 180 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
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