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legislate | American Dictionary

legislate
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈledʒ·əsˌleɪt/
politics & government
to make laws:
[ T ]The Clean Air Act legislated a reduction of pollution from power plants.

legislate | Business English

legislate
verb[ I or T ]
 LAWuk /ˈledʒɪsleɪt/us
to make rules or laws relating to a particular activity:
We cannot legislate a charge on businesses outside the state.
legislate for/on sthThe purpose of the Electronic Communications Bill was to legislate for a framework in which e-commerce could safely take place.
legislate against sthLegislating against carbon emissions is central to the Kyoto Protocol agreement.
legislate on sthIn the interests of balancing the economy, Congress must legislate on trade.
legislate to do sthSeveral ministers are legislating to ban political donations from people not registered to vote.

Examples of legislate

legislate
Men's instinctive reaction was to legislate the evil out of existence.
Reformers denigrated the casual and inhumane mode of legislating in the eighteenth century and estimated that over 200 capital offences had been created.
The base-case scenario represents a situation where legislated emission norms are met at all emission sources.
Specifically, it has failed to play an active and independent role in legislating public policies and exercising fiscal control over the national budget.
State agencies directly financed the industrial concerns or participated in legislating laws to favor this growth.
This further demonstrated the culpability of those who controlled parliament and legislated only in their own interest.
The problems and pitfalls of developing and legislating health policy are taken up in the next two papers.
After an initial effort to make the ban universal around 1760, the opposite and more realistic solution of intermarriage was finally legislated in 1765.
Changes in rules that have already been legislated, but are being phased in gradually, are assumed to be fully in place from the start.
Despite opposition from anti-party reformers, parties in most states legislated for types of ballot that preserved party control of the electorate.
Political fund regulation should be legislated before other political reform.
In particular, it began to legislate for the conduct and settlement of industrial disputes.
Where language policies for multilingualism work at the state level, it is probably mostly in cases of recognizing and legislating already established situations.
A bill of rights does not negate political responsibility to legislate in the public interest.
Serious methodologists do not, in fact, claim a privileged position from which to legislate the practice of economics.
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