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LAWMAKING

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• LAWMAKING (noun)
The noun LAWMAKING has 1 sense:

1. the act of making or enacting laws

Familiarity information: LAWMAKING used as a noun is very rare.

• LAWMAKING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The act of making or enacting laws

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

lawmaking; legislating; legislation

Hypernyms ("lawmaking" is a kind of...):

governance; governing; government; government activity (the act of governing; exercising authority)

Domain category:

legislation; statute law (law enacted by a legislative body)

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lawmaking"):

criminalisation; criminalization (legislation that makes something illegal)

decriminalisation; decriminalization (legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal)

enactment; passage (the passing of a law by a legislative body)

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