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LEGISLATIVE ACT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does legislative act mean? 

LEGISLATIVE ACT (noun)
  The noun LEGISLATIVE ACT has 1 sense:

1. an act passed by a legislative bodyplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LEGISLATIVE ACT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An act passed by a legislative body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

legislative act; statute

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

act; enactment (a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body)

Meronyms (parts of "legislative act"):

rider (a clause that is appended to a legislative bill)

Domain category:

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

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

fair-trade act (formerly a state law that protected manufacturers from price-cutting by allowing them to set minimum retail prices for their merchandise; eliminated by the United States Congress in 1975)

Stamp Act (an act passed by the British Parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American Colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents; opposition by the Colonies resulted in the repeal of the act in 1766)

enabling act; enabling clause (a provision in a law that confers on appropriate officials the power to implement or enforce the law)

FISA; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (an act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; intended to increase United States counterintelligence; separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance)

ordinance (a statute enacted by a city government)

special act (a legislative act that applies only to a particular person or particular district)


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