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LAWMAKING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lawmaking mean?
• LAWMAKING (noun)
The noun LAWMAKING has 1 sense:
1. the act of making or enacting laws
Familiarity information: LAWMAKING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of making or enacting laws
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
lawmaking; legislating; legislation
Hypernyms ("lawmaking" is a kind of...):
administration; governance; governing; government; government activity (the act of governing; exercising authority)
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 "lawmaking"):
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)
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