LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does legislative branch mean? 

• LEGISLATIVE BRANCH (noun)
  The noun LEGISLATIVE BRANCH has 1 sense:

1. the branch of the United States government that has the power of legislating

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEGISLATIVE BRANCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of the United States government that has the power of legislating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

arm; branch; subdivision (a division of some larger or more complex organization)

Meronyms (parts of "legislative branch"):

Government Printing Office; GPO; United States Government Printing Office; US Government Printing Office (an agency of the legislative branch that provides printing and binding services for Congress and the departments and establishments of the federal government)

Meronyms (members of "legislative branch"):

Congress; U.S. Congress; United States Congress; US Congress (the legislature of the United States government)

Holonyms ("legislative branch" is a member of...):

U.S.; U.S. government; United States; United States government; US Government (the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States)