legislative

[lej-is-ley-tiv] / ˈlɛdʒ ɪsˌleɪ tɪv /

ADJECTIVE

lawmaking

Synonyms

STRONGEST

congressional parliamentary senatorial

WEAK

decreeing enacting jurisdictive lawgiving legislational legislatorial nomistic nomothetic ordaining parliamentarian statute-making synodical

Example Sentences

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"We're struck by the contradiction in the opposition's decision not to participate in the electoral process while affirming it will not boycott the legislatives," said Camara.

From Reuters • Feb. 24, 2013

Here was an incorruptibility proof against bribes, and too original in legislatives halls, an originality, if not of suggestion yet of heroic act.

From Senatorial Character A Sermon in West Church, Boston, Sunday, 15th of March, After the Decease of Charles Sumner. by Bartol, C. A. (Cyrus Augustus)

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