Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that creates or enacts laws, especially a member of a legislative body.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A lawgiver; an individual who gives or makes laws; also, a member of a legislature or parliament, or other lawmaking body.
Wiktionary
- n. Someone who creates or enacts laws, especially a member of a legislative body.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who makes or enacts laws
Etymologies
- From Latin lēgislātor. (Wiktionary)
- French législateur, from Old French, from Latin lēgis lātor : lēgis, genitive of lēx, law; see leg- in Indo-European roots + lātor, proposer, bearer (from lātus, past participle of ferre, to propose, bear; see telə- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Making a significant campaign contribution to a legislator is also conspiring to commit fraud.”
“What matters to the legislator is the possibility of detaching the altar from the rear wall, not the celebration versus populum.”
“I spoke with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel today, and he said to me, look, don't expect the president to become what he called legislator in chief, but folks at the White House do point out that he's on the phone constantly with legislators.”
“After reading his statement below, you'll be forgiven for thinking the first-term legislator is trying to have it both ways.”
The Washington Post: Sam Arora is now for and against marriage equality
“Each individual Republican legislator is primarily interested in getting reelected and securing as much power and influence as possible.”
““Each individual Republican legislator is primarily interested in getting reelected and securing as much power and influence as possible.””
““A responsible legislator is going to rely on summaries …””
Matthew Yglesias » Stan Collender: Critics of Stimulus Bill’s Length are “Ridiculous”
“We have reservations against Maliki, and we want to come to a compromise candidate to form a strong government of national partnership, not a weak one," said Ali Shabbar, a leading Shiite legislator from the Shiite Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.”
The Washington Post: Shiite bloc backs Maliki for Iraqi prime minister; election deadlock nears end
“Congressional rules say that requiring employees to do so could "insulate a legislator from the personal and economic interests that his or her constituency, or society in general, has in governmental decisions and policy.”
The Wall Street Journal: Congressional Staffers Gain From Trading in Stocks
“The women in legislator and senior official positions has actually been going down but that's being counter balanced by the professional and technical worker positions that have been going up.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘legislator’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
across the desk, act, action, adjournment, adjournment sine die, adoption, advise and consent, amendment, analysis of the b..., apportionment, appropriation, appropriations limit and 652 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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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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big book gre
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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words of collect
A Heidegger Collection - a log of logues
leech, lectern, lection, lecture, legend, legible, legion, lesson, coil, collect, diligent, elect and 123 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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bearing words
talent, tolerate, telamon, toll, philately, talion, retaliate, tantalize, atlantic, atlas, ablative, allative and 44 more...
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