lawmaker

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One who makes or enacts laws.

   Lawmakers in France voted over the weekend of April 10/11 to introduce measures to restrict flights on routes where the same journey can be made by rail in under two and a half hours.

2. 2
   noun

   a maker of laws

Etymology

From Middle English lawemaker, lawe maker, equivalent to law + maker.