Meanings
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1
noun
A law or set of laws made by a government.
New legislation will ban smoking in all public buildings.
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2
noun
The act of making laws.
Legislation on this issue took several years.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
1
noun
· a law or set of laws made...
statute law
2
noun
· the act of making laws.
lawmaking
Word family
Forms
legislations
Derived forms
antilegislationcounterlegislationdelegislationoverlegislationpostlegislationprelegislationrelegislation
Etymology
From Late Latin lēgislātiō (“the giving of the law”). Morphologically legislate + -ion.
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