"enactment" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: enactments [plural]
Etymology: From enact + -ment. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|enact|-ment}} enact + -ment Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} enactment (countable and uncountable, plural enactments)
  1. The act of enacting, or the state of being enacted.
    The act of playing the part of.
    Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-enactment-en-noun-1xF0D3kX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ment, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Azerbaijani translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 47 7 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ment: 45 45 11 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 48 48 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 45 48 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 48 48 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Azerbaijani translations: 46 46 7 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 46 46 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 46 46 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 46 46 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Malay translations: 46 46 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 46 46 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 45 45 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 48 48 5
  2. The act of enacting, or the state of being enacted.
    (law) The act of making (a bill) into law.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law Translations (the act of making into law): whakaturetanga [legal, law] (Maori), enactuación [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-enactment-en-noun-VDUSH6z8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ment, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Azerbaijani translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 47 7 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ment: 45 45 11 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 48 48 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 45 48 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 48 48 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Azerbaijani translations: 46 46 7 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 46 46 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 46 46 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 46 46 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Malay translations: 46 46 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 46 46 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 45 45 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 48 48 5 Topics: law Disambiguation of 'the act of making into law': 39 55 6
  3. (law) A piece of legislation that has been properly authorized by a legislative body. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law Translations (a piece of legislation that has been properly authorized by a legislative body): göstəriş (Azerbaijani), Verabschiedung [feminine] (German), Annahme [feminine] (German), undang-undang (Indonesian), achtachán [masculine] (Irish), dlí [feminine] (Irish), ordú [masculine] (Irish), acht [masculine] (Irish), enakmen (Malay), enactuación [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-enactment-en-noun-UQLKJ8rV Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ment Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ment: 45 45 11 Topics: law Disambiguation of 'a piece of legislation that has been properly authorized by a legislative body': 1 2 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: reenactment Translations (the act of enacting): pemeragaan (Indonesian), achtú [masculine] (Irish), achtachán [masculine] (Irish), encenação [feminine] (Portuguese), enactuación [feminine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'the act of enacting': 49 49 1

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (65a6e81 and 0dbea76). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.