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
• S: (n) legislation, statute law (law enacted by a legislative body)
• S: (n) law, jurisprudence (the collection of rules imposed by authority) "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
• domain term category
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• 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"