Synonyms for legislation
ˌlɛdʒ ɪsˈleɪ ʃənleg·is·la·tion

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1. legislation

   Law, in its ideal, is the statement of a principle of right in mandatory form, by competent authority, with adequate penalty for disobedience; in common use, the term is applied to any legislative act, however imperfect or unjust. Command and commandment are personal and particular; as, the commands of a parent; the ten commandments. An edict is the act of an absolute sovereign or other authority; we speak of the edict of an emperor, the decree of a court. A mandate is specific, for an occasion or a purpose; a superior court issues its mandate to an inferior court to send up its records. Statute is the recognized legal term for a specific law; enactment is the more vague and general expression. We speak of algebraic or chemical formulas, municipal ordinances, military orders, army regulations, ecclesiastical canons, the rules of a business house. Law is often used, also, for a recognized principle, whose violation is attended with injury or loss that acts like a penalty; as, the laws of business; the laws of nature. In more strictly scientific use, a natural law is simply a recognized system of sequences or relations; as, Kepler's laws of planetary distances. A code is a system of laws; jurisprudence is the science of law, or a system of laws scientifically considered, classed, and interpreted; legislation, primarily the act of legislating, denotes also the body of statutes enacted by a legislative body. An economy (Greek oikonomia, primarily the management of a house) is any comprehensive system of administration; as, domestic economy; but the word is extended to the administration or government of a state or people, signifying a body of laws and regulations, with the entire system, political or religious, especially the latter, of which they form a part; as, the code of Draco, Roman jurisprudence, British legislation, the Mosaic economy. Law is also used as a collective noun for a system of laws or recognized rules or regulations, including not only all special laws, but the principles on which they are based. The Mosaic economy is known also as the Mosaic law, and we speak of the English common law, or the law of nations. Polity (Greek politeia, from polis, a city) signifies the form, constitution, or method of government of a nation, state, church, or other institution; in usage it differs from economy as applying rather to the system, while economy applies especially to method, or to the system as administered; an economy might be termed a polity considered with especial reference to its practical administration, hence commonly with special reference to details or particulars, while polity has more reference to broad principles.

   Synonyms:
   canon, code, command, commandment, decree, economy, edict, enactment, formula, jurisprudence, law, mandate, order, ordinance, polity, principle, regulation, rule, statute

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1. legislation, statute lawnoun

   law enacted by a legislative body

   Synonyms:
   legislating, statute law, lawmaking

2. legislation, legislating, lawmakingnoun

   the act of making or enacting laws

   Synonyms:
   legislating, statute law, lawmaking

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1. List of paraphrases for "legislation":

   laws, law, legislative, lawmaking, act, lois, legislations, statutes, regulation, législation, legislating, legal, acts, ordinance, ordinances, bill, gesetzgebung, statutory, legislature, normative

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1. Nancy Pelosi:

   We will continue to fight to pass the legislation, build Back Better Act must happen and we will do Build Back Better Act as soon as we can. There are conversations that are ongoing, but we can not walk away from this commitment.

2. Sajid Javid:

   The legislation that parliament has passed of course has made things more difficult, but we are clear our own policy is completely unchanged, we will be leaving on 31st.

3. Congressman Raul Grijalva:

   Our position has been from the beginning that Vieques did not belong in this package of legislation.

4. Lynn James:

   Really, I think it takes legislation to make a big change like that in terms of overall population health, along with policy and nutrition education, in many developing countries, they're trying to Westernize their diets.

5. Heights Securities analyst Daniel Hanson:

   Without clearly specified legal protections or priorities, the legislation is demanding a lot of trust from creditors regarding the composition of the federal control board and its ability to effect operational change within the budget.