legislation

Definition

Examples

Parliament recently passed new legislation to protect consumer privacy in digital transactions.

Word Family

Synonyms

• statutean act passed by a legislative body
• lawthe collection of rules imposed by authority
• acta legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body

Collocations

• Easy new legislation
  describing new legislation (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)
• Medium pass labor legislation
  to pass labor legislation, meaning to go across or through
• Hard comply with environmental legislation
  to act in accordance with rules regarding with environmental legislation
• Very Hard enact landmark bipartisan legislation
  to enact landmark bipartisan legislation, meaning to order by virtue of superior authority; decree