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English
Etymology
From Late Latin lēgislātiō (“the giving of the law”).
Morphologically legislate + -ion
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌlɛd͡ʒɪsˈleɪʃən/
- Hyphenation: le‧gis‧la‧tion
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
legislation (usually uncountable, plural legislations)
- The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws.
- Synonym: lawmaking
pass legislation
There is a lack of legislation about human cloning.
- Law which has been enacted by legislature or other governing body
Hyponyms
- (enacted laws): rooster (obsolete slang; legislation solely intended to benefit the legislators)
Derived terms
Translations
the act of legislating
- Arabic: تَشْرِيع (ar) m (tašrīʕ)
- Asturian: llexislación f
- Azerbaijani: qanunvericilik
- Belarusian: заканада́ўства n (zakanadáŭstva)
- Bulgarian: законода́телство n (zakonodátelstvo)
- Catalan: legislació f
- Cebuano: lehislasyon
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 立法 (zh) (lìfǎ)
- Czech: zákonodárství n
- Dutch: wetgeving (nl) f, legislatie (nl) f
- Finnish: lainsäädäntö (fi)
- French: législation (fr) f
- Galician: lexislación (gl) f
- Georgian: კანონმდებლობა (ḳanonmdebloba)
- German: Gesetzgebung (de) f
- Greek: νομοθεσία (el) f (nomothesía)
- Ancient: νομοθεσία f (nomothesía)
- Hungarian: törvényhozás (hu)
- Indonesian: legislasi (id), penyusunan (id), pembentukan (id)
- Irish: reachtaíocht f
- Italian: legislazione (it) f
- Japanese: 法制化 (ほうせいか, hōseika), 法制 (ja) (ほうせい, hōsei), 立法 (ja) (りっぽう, rippō)
- Korean: 입법(立法) (ko) (ipbeop), 립법(立法) (ko) (ripbeop) (North Korea)
- Latin: lēgislātiō f
- Macedonian: законодавство c (zakonodavstvo)
- Malay: penggubalan
- Maltese: leġiżlazzjoni f
- Maori: whakaturetanga
- Norman: législâtion f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lovgivning m or f
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: قانونگُذاری (ğânun-gozâri)
- Polish: prawodawstwo n, ustawodawstwo (pl) n, legislacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: legislação (pt) f
- Russian: законода́тельство (ru) n (zakonodátelʹstvo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: законода́вство n
- Roman: zakonodávstvo (sh) n
- Slovak: zákonodarstvo n
- Slovene: zakonodaja f
- Spanish: legislación (es) f
- Swedish: lagstiftning (sv) c
- Turkish: yasama (tr), kanun (tr)
- Ukrainian: законода́вство n (zakonodávstvo)
- Vietnamese: lập pháp (vi)
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law already enacted by legislature
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