- legislation, legislating, lawmaking - the act of making or enacting laws
--1 is a kind of government, governing, governance, government activity
--1 has particulars:criminalization, criminalisation; decriminalization, decriminalisation; enactment, passage
- legislate, pass - make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people's spend their free time"
--1 is one way to ordain, enact
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun legislature1, noun legislation1, noun legislation2, noun legislator1
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