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Legislative

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or relating to the enactment of laws.

adj. Resulting from or decided by legislation.

adj. Having the power to create laws; intended to legislate.

adj. Of or relating to a legislature.

n. The legislative body of a government; a legislature.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; - distinguished from executive: as, a legislative act, a legislative body.

n. That branch of government which is responsible for making, or having the power to make, a law or laws.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive.

adj. Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to legislation

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Pertaining to or resulting from legislation; ordained by a legislator or a legislature; having statutory force or quality: as, legislative proceedings; a legislative prohibition.

Having power to legislate; enacting or uttering laws; lawmaking: as, a legislative body; legislative authority.

Of or belonging to a legislature; relating to or consisting of a body of legislators: as, a legislative committee; a legislative vote; a legislative recess.

n. A person, as a prince or dictator, or a body of persons, as a parliamentary assembly, invested with authority to make or alter laws. Compare executive.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature

adj. of or relating to or created by legislation

Word Usage

"Thus the president or the governor is, in a certain sense, the agent and officer of the legislative power of the state, to carry into effect its decisions, and this _legislative_ power has really the control."

Antonym

executive

Cross Reference

legislative power legislative assembly

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

lawmaking legific legislatorial nomothetic nomothetical

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

administrative parliamentary judicial governmental legal