Noun

• S: (n) legislation, legislating, lawmaking (the act of making or enacting laws)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• 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) misgovernment, misrule (government that is inefficient or dishonest)
• S: (n) legislation, legislating, lawmaking (the act of making or enacting laws)
• S: (n) trust busting ((law) government activities seeking to dissolve corporate trusts and monopolies (especially under the United States antitrust laws))
• 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"