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.
  •passage (noun)
  • visa,
  • safeconduct,
  • legalizations,
  • safe-conducts,
  • legalization,
  • safe-conduct,
  • VISAS.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Lex,
  • administration (of an estate),
  • assize.
  •
  • bill.
  •
  • measure.
  •statecraft
  • statesmanship.

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.