Legislate

Verb

 * 1) To pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws).
 * ''If they can't get people to do the right thing by talking then they will try to legislate it, then they can try to enforce the statutes.

Derived terms

 * legislation
 * legislative
 * legislator
 * legislature

Adverbs for Legislate
precipitately; shrewdly; beneficently; malignantly; oppressively; economically; socially; constitutionally; perniciously; ecclesiastically; appropriately; arbitrarily; unscrupulously.

Thesaurus
authorize, constitute, declare lawful, decree, enact, enact laws, establish, filibuster, formulate, get the floor, have the floor, kill, legalize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, lobby through, logroll, make a regulation, make legal, ordain, pass, pigeonhole, pocket, prescribe, put in force, put through, railroad through, regulate, roll logs, sanction, table, take the floor, validate, veto, yield the floor

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: wetten maken
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Gesetze geben
 * French:
 * German: Gesetze geben


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: издавать законы, законодательствовать
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: lagstifta
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: lagstifta