legislation

Other forms of legislation

plural

legislations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about legislation

What does legislation mean?

legislation means "law enacted by a legislative body". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in legislation?

legislation has 4 syllables: leg-i-sla-tion. The stress falls on "sla". In IPA it is /ˌlɛdʒəˈsleɪʃən/.

What is another word for legislation?

Close synonyms include statute law, legislating, lawmaking. 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 legislation a common word?

legislation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.