LEGISLATING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The act of making or enacting laws

Synonyms:

lawmaking; legislating; legislation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("legislating" is a kind of...):

Domain category:

legislation; statute law (law enacted by a legislative body)

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Domain member category:

reconsider (consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it)

filibuster (obstruct deliberately by delaying)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legislating"):

criminalisation; criminalization (legislation that makes something illegal)

decriminalisation; decriminalization (legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal)

enactment; passage (the passing of a law by a legislative body)

-ing form of the verb legislate