Noun

• S: (n) legislation, statute law (law enacted by a legislative body)
• 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
• 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"
• derivationally related form