Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to the enactment of laws.
- adj. Resulting from or decided by legislation.
- adj. Having the power to create laws; intended to legislate.
- adj. Of or relating to a legislature.
- n. The legislative body of a government; a legislature.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or resulting from legislation; ordained by a legislator or a legislature; having statutory force or quality: as, legislative proceedings; a legislative prohibition.
- Having power to legislate; enacting or uttering laws; lawmaking: as, a legislative body; legislative authority.
- Of or belonging to a legislature; relating to or consisting of a body of legislators: as, a legislative committee; a legislative vote; a legislative recess.
- n. A person, as a prince or dictator, or a body of persons, as a parliamentary assembly, invested with authority to make or alter laws. Compare executive.
Wiktionary
- adj. Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; - distinguished from executive: as, a legislative act, a legislative body.
- n. That branch of government which is responsible for making, or having the power to make, a law or laws.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from
executive . - adj. Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to legislation
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature
- adj. of or relating to or created by legislation
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“Traditionally, judges look to what they call legislative intent.”
“This is one of those projects that touch's what we call our legislative mandate: Preserve Protect and Perpetuate as well as provide outdoor recreation activities," Anderson said.”
“Sadly and surprisingly, they were abetted by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who declared last month that he would accept what he called a "legislative solution" to the status of the wolf in the Rocky Mountains.”
“Vicki Goode of Boyle County, Ky., had voted for Obama as well, and said she felt disappointed by his first two years in office and by what she characterized as a legislative logjam in Washington.”
“But House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, decried what he called the legislative strong-arming coordinated between the administration and congressional Democrats.”
“Its advancement, from inception through passage, reflects the power that we, as concerned Americans, have to participate in legislative change to improve animals 'lives.”
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