ENABLING LEGISLATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enabling legislation mean? 

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

1. legislation that gives appropriate officials the authority to implement or enforce the law

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENABLING LEGISLATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Legislation that gives appropriate officials the authority to implement or enforce the law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

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

Domain category:

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