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How to pronounce legislate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms pass
Type of enact, ordain
Derivation legislation, legislative, legislator, legislature


We cannot legislate how people spend their free time.

Examples of legislate

legislate
Plus, they say, now is the exact wrong time to re-legislate the lending process.
From the time.com
The governor who doesn't govern is suing the Legislature that doesn't legislate.
From the thestate.com
Government may exist to protect your freedom but legislate it, that it does not.
From the economist.com
Put simply, I believe that legislators should legislate and judges should judge.
From the charlotteobserver.com
The NFL is right in trying to legislate these punishing tackles out of the game.
From the denverpost.com
We legislate, regulate and tax in order to maintain the healthy bidness climate.
From the time.com
It does not have a mandate to legislate or impact as many citizens as possible.
From the time.com
Like the NFL, the NHL is doing its best to legislate head shots out of the sport.
From the sacbee.com
Honest Abe denounced prohibition of any kind as attempting to legislate appetite.
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  • Make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people spend their free time"
  • (legislating) legislation: the act of making or enacting laws
  • Legislation (or "statutory law") is law which has been promulgated (or "enacted") by a legislature or other governing body, or the process of making it. (Another source of law is judge-made law or case law. ...
  • To pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws)
  • To pass a law (lex) with the intention of binding the faithful to that law. Licit/illicit status: The lawfulness or unlawfulness of a certain act that may or may not affect the validity of that act. ...
  • To enact laws or pass resolutions by the lawmaking process, in contrast to law that is derived from principles espoused by courts in decisions.
  • To make, enact a law or laws; to bring about by the passage of a law. As, Congress legislates for the United States.