"legislation" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌlɛd͡ʒɪsˈleɪʃən/ Audio: en-us-legislation.ogg [US] Forms: legislations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Late Latin lēgislātiō (“the giving of the law”). Morphologically legislate + -ion Etymology templates: {{uder|en|LL.|lēgislātiō||the giving of the law}} Late Latin lēgislātiō (“the giving of the law”), {{suffix|en|legislate|ion|nocat=1}} legislate + -ion Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} legislation (usually uncountable, plural legislations)
  1. The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: lawmaking Translations (the act of legislating): νομοθεσία (nomothesía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), تَشْرِيع (tašrīʕ) [masculine] (Arabic), llexislación [feminine] (Asturian), qanunvericilik (Azerbaijani), заканада́ўства (zakanadáŭstva) [neuter] (Belarusian), законода́телство (zakonodátelstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), legislació [feminine] (Catalan), lehislasyon (Cebuano), 立法 (lìfǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), zákonodárství [neuter] (Czech), wetgeving [feminine] (Dutch), legislatie [feminine] (Dutch), lainsäädäntö (Finnish), législation [feminine] (French), lexislación [feminine] (Galician), კანონმდებლობა (ḳanonmdebloba) (Georgian), Gesetzgebung [feminine] (German), νομοθεσία (nomothesía) [feminine] (Greek), törvényhozás (Hungarian), legislasi (Indonesian), penyusunan (Indonesian), pembentukan (Indonesian), reachtaíocht [feminine] (Irish), legislazione [feminine] (Italian), 法制化 (hōseika) (Japanese), 法制 (hōsei) (Japanese), 立法 (rippō) (alt: りっぽう) (Japanese), 입법 (ipbeop) (Korean), 립법 (ripbeop) [North-Korea] (Korean), lēgislātiō [feminine] (Latin), законодавство (zakonodavstvo) [common-gender] (Macedonian), leġiżlazzjoni [feminine] (Maltese), whakaturetanga (Maori), législâtion [feminine] (Norman), lovgivning [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), قانونگذاری (qânun-gozâri) (Persian), prawodawstwo [neuter] (Polish), ustawodawstwo [neuter] (Polish), legislacja [feminine] (Polish), legislação [feminine] (Portuguese), законода́тельство (zakonodátelʹstvo) [neuter] (Russian), законода́вство [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), zakonodávstvo [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), zákonodarstvo [neuter] (Slovak), zakonodaja [feminine] (Slovene), legislación [feminine] (Spanish), lagstiftning [common-gender] (Swedish), yasama (Turkish), kanun (Turkish), законода́вство (zakonodávstvo) [neuter] (Ukrainian), lập pháp (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-legislation-en-noun-v~rWYzLw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46 Disambiguation of 'the act of legislating': 96 4
  2. Law which has been enacted by legislature or other governing body Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Government, Law Translations (law already enacted by legislature): νομοθέτημα (nomothétēma) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), شَرِيعَة (šarīʕa) [feminine] (Arabic), قَانُون (qānūn) [masculine] (Arabic), llexislación [feminine] (Asturian), зако́н (zakón) [masculine] (Belarusian), lehislasyon (Cebuano), 立法 (lìfǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), 法規 (Chinese Mandarin), 法规 (fǎguī) (Chinese Mandarin), wet [feminine] (Dutch), lainsäädäntö (Finnish), loi [feminine] (French), lexislación [feminine] (Galician), კანონი (ḳanoni) (Georgian), Gesetz [neuter] (German), becikkelyezett törvény (Hungarian), undang-undang (Indonesian), reachtaíocht [feminine] (Irish), leggi [feminine, plural] (Italian), 法律 (hōritsu) (alt: ほうりつ) (Japanese), 법률 (beomnyul) (Korean), akta (Malay), leġiżlazzjoni [feminine] (Maltese), lovgivning [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), قانون (qânun) (Persian), ustawodawstwo [neuter] (Polish), prawodawstwo [neuter] (Polish), legislação [feminine] (Portuguese), зако́н (zakón) [masculine] (Russian), legislación [feminine] (Spanish), lagstiftning [common-gender] (Swedish), зако́н (zakón) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-legislation-en-noun-PU0qt622 Disambiguation of Government: 0 100 Disambiguation of Law: 9 91 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 35 65 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 38 62 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 39 61 Disambiguation of 'law already enacted by legislature': 12 88
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms (enacted laws): rooster (english: obsolete slang; legislation solely intended to benefit the legislators) Derived forms: delegated legislation, primary legislation, secondary legislation, subordinate legislation, subsidiary legislation
Disambiguation of 'enacted laws': 46 54

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          "word": "法制化"
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "az",
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "word": "qanunvericilik"
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      "code": "be",
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      "roman": "zakanadáŭstva",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "заканада́ўства"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zakonodátelstvo",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "legislació"
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      "code": "ceb",
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "word": "lehislasyon"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lìfǎ",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "word": "立法"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zákonodárství"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "wetgeving"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "legislatie"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "word": "lainsäädäntö"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "lexislación"
    },
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ḳanonmdebloba",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "word": "კანონმდებლობა"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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      "code": "el",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "word": "törvényhozás"
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "word": "legislasi"
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
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      "tags": [
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "word": "法制化"
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      "word": "法制"
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      "word": "立法"
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      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "word": "입법"
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      "code": "ko",
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      "roman": "ripbeop",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "mt",
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "mi",
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "word": "whakaturetanga"
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lovgivning"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "qânun-gozâri",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "word": "قانونگذاری"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "pl",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "legislação"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "законода́тельство"
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
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        "neuter"
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      "word": "законода́вство"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
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      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "zakonodaja"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "legislación"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "lagstiftning"
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      "sense": "the act of legislating",
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "word": "kanun"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zakonodávstvo",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "законода́вство"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the act of legislating",
      "word": "lập pháp"
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      "code": "ar",
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      "roman": "šarīʕa",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "شَرِيعَة"
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    {
      "code": "ar",
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      "roman": "qānūn",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "code": "ast",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "be",
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      "roman": "zakón",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "зако́н"
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    {
      "code": "ceb",
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      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "word": "lehislasyon"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "lìfǎ",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "word": "立法"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "word": "法規"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fǎguī",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "word": "法规"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "wet"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "word": "lainsäädäntö"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "loi"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lexislación"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ḳanoni",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "word": "კანონი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Gesetz"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "nomothétēma",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "νομοθέτημα"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "word": "becikkelyezett törvény"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "word": "undang-undang"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "reachtaíocht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "leggi"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ほうりつ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hōritsu",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "word": "法律"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "beomnyul",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "word": "법률"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "word": "akta"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "leġiżlazzjoni"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lovgivning"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "qânun",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "word": "قانون"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ustawodawstwo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "prawodawstwo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "legislação"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zakón",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "зако́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "legislación"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "lagstiftning"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zakón",
      "sense": "law already enacted by legislature",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "зако́н"
    }
  ],
  "word": "legislation"
}

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