LEGISLATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does legislation mean? 

• LEGISLATION (noun)
  The noun LEGISLATION has 2 senses:

1. law enacted by a legislative body

2. the act of making or enacting laws

  Familiarity information: LEGISLATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEGISLATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Law enacted by a legislative body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

legislation; statute law

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

civil law (the body of laws established by a state or nation for its own regulation)

Domain category:

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

Domain member category:

lawmaking; legislating; legislation (the act of making or enacting laws)

Department of Justice; DoJ; Justice; Justice Department (the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870)

unamended ((of legislation) not amended)

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

enabling legislation (legislation that gives appropriate officials the authority to implement or enforce the law)

federal job safety law; occupational safety and health act (a law passed by the United States Congress that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment)

Holonyms ("legislation" is a part of...):

statute book (a record of the whole body of legislation in a given jurisdiction)

Derivation:

legislate (make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of making or enacting laws

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

lawmaking; legislating; legislation

Hypernyms ("legislation" 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 "legislation"):

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)

Derivation:

legislate (make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation)

 Context examples 

Using transposons to generate new mutations offers a transgene-free method of breeding that acknowledges the current EU legislation on Genetically Modified Organisms.

(Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops, University of Cambridge)

There is currently no EU legislation forcing Member States to adopt measures about them.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)