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LEGISLATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does legislating mean? 

LEGISLATING (noun)
  The noun LEGISLATING has 1 sense:

1. the act of making or enacting lawsplay

  Familiarity information: LEGISLATING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LEGISLATING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of making or enacting laws

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

lawmaking; legislating; legislation

Hypernyms ("legislating" is a kind of...):

administration; governance; governing; government; government activity (the act of governing; exercising authority)

Domain category:

legislation; statute law (law enacted by a legislative body)

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

Domain member category:

reconsider (consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it)

filibuster (obstruct deliberately by delaying)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legislating"):

criminalisation; criminalization (legislation that makes something illegal)

decriminalisation; decriminalization (legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal)

enactment; passage (the passing of a law by a legislative body)


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