legislative body

Questions about legislative body

What does legislative body mean?

legislative body means "persons who make or amend or repeal laws".

What is another word for legislative body?

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

legislative body 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.