ENABLING ACT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enabling act mean? 

• ENABLING ACT (noun)
  The noun ENABLING ACT has 1 sense:

1. a provision in a law that confers on appropriate officials the power to implement or enforce the law

  Familiarity information: ENABLING ACT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENABLING ACT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A provision in a law that confers on appropriate officials the power to implement or enforce the law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

enabling act; enabling clause

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

legislative act; statute (an act passed by a legislative body)

Domain category:

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