Noun

• S: (n) legislation, legislating, lawmaking (the act of making or enacting laws)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) criminalization, criminalisation (legislation that makes something illegal) "the criminalization of marijuana"
• S: (n) decriminalization, decriminalisation (legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal)
• S: (n) enactment, passage (the passing of a law by a legislative body)
• domain category
• domain term category
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) government, governing, governance, government activity, administration (the act of governing; exercising authority) "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government"
• S: (n) social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)
• S: (n) group action (action taken by a group of people)
• S: (n) act, deed, human action, human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)
• S: (n) event (something that happens at a given place and time)
• S: (n) psychological feature (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• S: (n) event (something that happens at a given place and time)
• S: (n) psychological feature (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form

Verb

• S: (v) legislate, pass (make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation) "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people spend their free time"