law-makers

Questions about law-makers

What does law-makers mean?

law-makers means "persons who make or amend or repeal laws".

How many syllables are in law-makers?

law-makers has 3 syllables: law--ma-kers. The stress falls on "law-".

What is another word for law-makers?

Close synonyms include legislature, legislative assembly, legislative body, general assembly. 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 law-makers a common word?

law-makers 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.