"colegislate" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: colegislates [present, singular, third-person], colegislating [participle, present], colegislated [participle, past], colegislated [past]
Etymology: co- + legislate. Owing to its relative frequency, and legislate too having been back-formed, probably often back-formation from colegislator. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|co-|legislate}} co- + legislate, {{m|en|legislate}} legislate, {{back-formation|en|colegislator|nocap=1}} back-formation from colegislator Head templates: {{en-verb}} colegislate (third-person singular simple present colegislates, present participle colegislating, simple past and past participle colegislated)
  1. (uncommon) To necessarily bring about a statute together with another legislative body or legislature, to be a colegislator. Tags: uncommon Categories (topical): Law Synonyms: co-legislate Translations (bringing forward a statute together): toimia toisena lainsäätäjänä (Finnish), toimia yhteislainsäätäjänä (Finnish), mitgesetzgebend (note: for the participle) (German), созаконода́тельный (sozakonodátelʹnyj) (note: for the participle) (Russian), medlagstifta (Swedish)

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