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 and divides as law--ma-kers under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.