Definition for Legislation:

• The act of making a law or laws.

Synonyms for Legislation:

• n.

  •
  • claim,
  • civil liberties,
  • case law,
  • Chapter 7,
  • civil rights,
  • Chapter 11.
  •
  • act.
  •administration (noun)
  • over sight,
  • over-seeings,
  • pro vision,
  • over sights,
  • administerings,
  • dis-position,
  • super vision,
  • super-visions,
  • overseeings,
  • super visions,
  • over-sights,
  • directings,
  • over seeings,
  • over seeing,
  • super-vision,
  • pro-visions,
  • pro-vision,
  • dis positions,
  • over-sight,
  • dis-positions,
  • pro visions,
  • conductings,
  • over-seeing,
  • governings,
  • dis position.
  •communication (noun)
  • statute law,
  • legislation.
  •constitution (noun)
  • lawmakings.
  •law (noun)
  • in junctions,
  • be hest,
  • due processes,
  • jurisprudences,
  • in-junctions,
  • pre scripts,
  • be hests,
  • in-junction,
  • be-hest,
  • pre-scripts,
  • pre cept,
  • pre-cept,
  • pre-script,
  • in junction,
  • decretums,
  • be-hests,
  • pre script.
  •law of a government (noun)
  • prescription,
  • regulation,
  • charter,
  • statute,
  • codification,
  • ruling.
  •legality (noun)
  • permissibility,
  • lawfulness,
  • right,
  • Constitutionality,
  • legality,
  • authorization,
  • Defensibility,
  • properness.
  •legislating (noun)
  • legislating.
  •passage (noun)
  • VISAS,
  • safeconduct,
  • safe-conduct,
  • safe-conducts,
  • visa,
  • legalizations.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Lex,
  • administration (of an estate),
  • assize.
  •
  • bill.
  •
  • measure.
  •Other relevant words:
  • legislate,
  • characterization,
  • dictation,
  • rubric,
  • rule,
  • personation,
  • steerage,
  • plan,
  • conduct,
  • legislature,
  • legalization,
  • Gubernation,
  • number,
  • passageway,
  • form,
  • authorisation,
  • decree,
  • economy,
  • order,
  • pole star,
  • edict,
  • ratification,
  • compass,
  • laws,
  • bossism,
  • load star,
  • proposal,
  • enabling legislation,
  • concurrent resolution,
  • passing,
  • ordinance,
  • guidance,
  • mandate,
  • director,
  • formality,
  • legislative,
  • standing order,
  • sanction,
  • approval,
  • command,
  • reins,
  • statesmanship,
  • reins of government,
  • management,
  • helm,
  • depiction,
  • legislations,
  • guiding star,
  • adoption,
  • constitutionalization,
  • cynosure,
  • ENACTION,
  • validation,
  • joint resolution,
  • canon,
  • Managery,
  • acceptance,
  • resolution,
  • Ordainment,
  • dictate,
  • formula,
  • direction,
  • Nomology,
  • JUS,
  • Endorsing,
  • pilotage,
  • legitimization,
  • Formulary,
  • principle,
  • commandment,
  • prescript,
  • endorsement,
  • code,
  • Ordonnance,
  • rudder,
  • delineation,
  • polity,
  • institution,
  • lode star,
  • needle.

Paraphrases for Legislation:

• Equivalence

  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    legislations.

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    bill, bills.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    bill.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    sections, revisions, clauses, Measures, dispositions, instruments, bylaws, corporations, norms, texts, rules, provisions.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    lei, legislator, acquis, rule, rules, prescription, jurisdiction, text.
  • Verb, past tense
    Introduced, Had.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    assumes, provides, applies, takes, means.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    legislative, regulation, Regulations, laws, ordinance, ordinances, lawmaking, legal, legislature.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    legislative, legalisation, regulation, Regulations, legalization, ordinance, lawmaking, legislature.
  • Adverb
    legislative, laws.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    legislates, laws.
  • Verb, base form
    legislate, legislative.

Legislation Sentence Examples:

• Ours is of a people to be made happy by democratic legislation; Schiller's was of a people to be made happy by the personal goodness and enlightenment of the monarch.

• It regarded the universal distress as nothing more than a peculiarity of English legislation.

Homophones for Legislation:

• Louis Le Hutin, local time.

Holonyms for Legislation:

• n.

  • communication
    statute book.

Hypernym for Legislation:

• n.

  • communication
    federal job safety law, occupational safety and health act, enabling legislation.

Hyponym for Legislation:

• n.

  • communication
    civil law.