What does legislate mean?
Definitions for legislate
ˈlɛdʒ ɪsˌleɪtleg·is·late
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Princeton's WordNet
legislate, passverb
make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
"They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people spend their free time"
Wiktionary
legislateverb
To pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws).
If they can't get people to do the right thing by talking then they will try to legislate it, then they can try to enforce the statutes.
Etymology: Back formation from legislation, legislator.
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legislate
To legislate means to make or enact a new law or set of laws, generally in the context of a political institution or governing body like a government, parliament, or congress. It also refers to the process of discussing, reviewing and approving the laws before they are put into effect.
Webster Dictionary
Legislateverb
to make or enact a law or laws
Etymology: [See Legislator.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Legislate
lej′is-lāt, v.i. to bring forward, propose, or make laws.—n. Legislā′tion.—adj. Leg′islative, giving or enacting laws: pertaining to legislation, or a legislature.—n. a body of persons, or a single person, with powers to enact laws.—adv. Leg′islatively.—n. Leg′islator, one who makes laws: a lawgiver:—fem. Leg′islatress.—adj. Legislatō′rial, of or pertaining to a legislature.—ns. Leg′islatorship; Leg′islature, the body of men in a state who have the power of making laws.—Legislative assembly (see Assembly); Legislative power, the power to make laws.—Class legislation, legislation affecting the interests of a particular class. [L. lex, legis, law, ferre, latum, to bear.]
Editors Contribution
legislate
To create by legislation.
They did legislate for all human rights and freedom as a priority.
Submitted by MaryC on March 8, 2020
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The numerical value of legislate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of legislate in a Sentence
Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart:
There are interests here on both sides, there are interests for everyone involved. This is unique for the woman, it’s unique for the unborn child too, whose life is at stake in all of these decisions. It’s unique for us as a society in how we decide if the states get to legislate on this issue, how to decide, and how to weigh these tremendously momentous issues.
Ministers must legislate as necessary to allow UK airlines in financial trouble to trade in protective administration, other countries do it as a matter of course. We should do it in the UK.
It is never a good thing when a state tries to legislate morality, the new code puts civil liberties at risk and gives the state powerful tools to punish ideological, moral and political offenses.
ADGM has decided to legislate for English common law to apply in, and form part of the law of, the Global Market, english common law, as it stands from time to time, will therefore govern matters such as contracts, tort, trusts, equitable remedies, unjust enrichment, damages, conflicts of laws, security, and personal property.
It's this exact reason that it's nonsensical to legislate these cases : Nobody arrives at the decision to have an abortion after 24 weeks carelessly, rather, it's the rare case of rapidly decompensating maternal heart disease or a delayed diagnosis of anencephaly, where the fetus forms without a complete brain or skull, that bring people to these decisions.
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- legislarCatalan, Valencian
- Gesetze gebenGerman
- legislarSpanish
- قانون گذاریPersian
- säätää lakiFinnish
- légiférerFrench
- reachtaighIrish
- törvényt hozHungarian
- legiferareItalian
- 法Japanese
- legis ferreLatin
- wetten makenDutch
- legislarPortuguese
- законодательствовать, издавать законыRussian
- lagstiftaSwedish
- قانون سازی کریںUrdu
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