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legislature
  1. A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.
  2. (Canada) A legislative building.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “There are a total of nine independent lawmakers in the current legislature.”
      “New York's legislature was one of the last to pass a blue-sky law, letting through a deliberately enfeebled version.”
      “Whatever decisions were made by the legislature that resulted in these multimillion dollar deficits, that's of their own making.”
legislation
  1. The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.
  2. Law which has been enacted by legislature or other governing body
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Seventeen states have enacted legislation to accomplish the purpose of the Purchase of Federal Surpluses Act.”
      “The national legislation in the form in which it now appears adopts the same approach.”
      “Hence, during the legislation of civil code, theorists shall not only probe into the internal constitution of various rights of claim, but also classify the relationships between related rights of claim.”
legist
  1. One skilled in the law.
  2. A writer on law, a legislator, a lawmaker
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    1. “Where human statute is beginning to prize the general weal, the legist is of high account, and the priest paramount.”
      “It was a requirement of prudence and safety which commends itself to every logician and legist.”
      “Then as an administrator he reformed the government, as a legist he reissued and revised the laws.”
legislator
  1. Someone who creates or enacts laws, especially a member of a legislative body.
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    1. “The governor has become Santa Claus for every legislator with visions of boondoggles dancing in their heads.”
      “The legislator said that although he respected the caucus decision, he thought it was making a mountain out of a molehill.”
      “Whereas a legislator must check his impulse to enact his religious precepts into law, an executive official faces a somewhat different problem.”
legislative
  1. That branch of government which is responsible for making, or having the power to make, a law or laws.
legislatorship
  1. The office or position of a legislator.
  2. Examples:
    1. “His conduct, while he was there, was equally unprincipled, if not as atrocious, as it has been since his elevation to the Legislatorship.”
legislatrix
  1. (archaic) A female legislator.
legislatress
  1. (rare) A female legislator.
legislatour
  1. Obsolete spelling of legislator
legislations
  1. plural of legislation (multiple acts of legislation)
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  3. Examples:
    1. “If the government enforces two legislations for two similar obligatory programs, the result would be legal uncertainty, he said.”
      “Present legislations focus on carbonaceous particulate emissions, without considering separately soot particules and extractible matter.”
      “Whether the legislations are inefficient and must be changed, or the logo story is a scaring nonsense.”
legislatorships
  1. plural of legislatorship
legislatresses
  1. plural of legislatress
legislatours
  1. plural of legislatour
legislatures
  1. plural of legislature
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Such a transformation realigns governments, legislatures, and armed forces to multinational collective security and collective defense.”
      “At the state level, some of the legislatures are bicameral, patterned after the two houses of the national parliament.”
      “States using an independent approach produced more than twice as many competitive races for state legislatures than did gerrymandered states.”
legislators
  1. plural of legislator
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This derogation from representation is balanced against the need for independence from the passing passions that can excite legislators.”
      “We must convince our legislators to place roadblocks in the almost criminal misuse of American jurisprudence.”
      “Whatever the reason, the continual absenteeism of legislators is a serious matter.”
legists
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