Legislative
['ledʒɪslətɪv] or ['lɛdʒɪsletɪv]
Definition
(adj.) of or relating to or created by legislation; 'legislative proposal' .
(adj.) relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature; 'legislative council' .
Editor: Susanna--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to legislation; as, the transaction of legislative business; the legislative style.
Edited by Elise
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Law-making.
Checker: Quincy
Examples
- The socialism of the Fabians soon became a definite legislative program which the various political parties were to be bulldozed, cajoled and tricked into enacting. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They issued a legislative curse, and called upon the district attorney to do the rest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I have wished to emphasize that there is nothing in this book which can be drafted into a legislative proposal and presented to the legislature the day after to-morrow. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Veneering pervades the legislative lobbies, intent upon entrapping his fellow-legislators to dinner. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Before the commencement of the present disturbances, the colony assemblies had not only the legislative, but a part of the executive power. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When some constructive proposal is being agitated before a legislative committee, it is customary to unite the movements in support of it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They perceived that the Legislative Assembly, so clipped of all experience, must certainly be a politically incompetent body. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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