enabling clause

1. 1.

   a provision in a law that confers on appropriate officials the power to implement or enforce the law

   Synonymsenabling act

   Broaderlegislative act

   law

Questions about enabling clause

What does enabling clause mean?

enabling clause means "a provision in a law that confers on appropriate officials the power to implement or enforce the law".

What is another word for enabling clause?

Close synonyms include enabling act. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is enabling clause a common word?

enabling clause is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.