LEGISLATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they legislate ... he / she / it legislates

Past simple: legislated

Past participle: legislated

-ing form: legislating

Meaning:

Make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation

Example:

We cannot legislate how people spend their free time

Synonyms:

legislate; pass

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "legislate" is one way to...):

enact; ordain (order by virtue of superior authority; decree)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

legislation (the act of making or enacting laws)

legislation (law enacted by a legislative body)

legislative (of or relating to or created by legislation)

legislator (someone who makes or enacts laws)

legislature (persons who make or amend or repeal laws)