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legislate Verb

— If you legislate, you create or change a law. The government legislated changes to the tax law. It's a bad idea to try to legislate how people should spend their money.

legislate

— verb (= pass) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation They passed the amendment We cannot legislate how people spend their free time

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enact decree pass ordain stamp prescribe make a law lay down issue a law imprint impose govern formulate

Topics legislate topics

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Social behavior Law

Pass laws

Conjugation legislate conjugation

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legislate · verb

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The way things are going, they'll probably legislate the medical profession right out of existence.
As long as Parliament continues to legislate, the Civil Service.
Pretty soon, they're going to legislate us out of business anyway.
Courts don't protect jilted brides or legislate love.
Second, I know it's a slippery slope when you start asking judges to legislate couples.
You cannot legislate morality, Delenn.
No law can be effective that actually, that tries to regulate or legislate private morality.
It's not the government's place to legislate but he plays his role as a moral leader.
It seems to me an intelligent country would legislate a second such gift-giving holiday.
Time to legislate!
Everybody reckons that the report is about to legislate punitive taxation for oil companies not behaving themselves.
You vote not to legislate change, but to profit.
And we are not going to let the John Briggs' or the Anita Bryants legislate bigotry in this state.
I don't want to try to legislate the Internet.
All right, all right, just wait a minute! Now, nobody is trying to legislate or dictate your private morals.
You can't legislate morality.
You can not legislate morality, or music, or people's minds. - We'll bring you down, man. - I have a teenaged daughter.
They can legislate her dress.
Second, I know it's a slippery slope when you start asking judges to legislate couples. And third I miss you.
So the court should legislate the content of radio programs?
People fall in love for insanities and we don't legislate the reasons.
Their policies are trying to legislate against smiling, hugging.
A Superior Court judge trying to legislate who a woman can marry.
I'll process it through the database. We are not here to legislate.
You can not legislate morality, or music, or people's minds.
I'm just not sure it's right to legislate against how people think.
It seems to me an intelligent countr would legislate a second such gift-giving holiday.
Don't legislate.
We are not here to legislate.
Don't you wanna take back Congress? We can legislate on 100 of our issues.

News and current affairs

They should also legislate now for future reforms, notably to encourage people to work longer.
Many commentators, even those sympathetic to Bloomberg's goal, argued that it was wrong to try to legislate consumer behavior so bluntly.
Of course, it is not easy to legislate financial reform in a stagnant global economy, for fear of impeding credit and turning a sluggish recovery into a full-blown recession.
Because Europe has so many bodies that legislate - the Council of Ministers, the Council for Agriculture, the Council for Industry, the Council for the Environment, etc. - we cannot know who is doing what and why.
Many Europeans still seem to believe that economics is a fairy tale, that you can legislate your wishes.
The Shoura, or consultative council, is toothless: appointed by the king, it is unable to legislate and will remain un-elected for the foreseeable future.
In 2004, Denmark became the first country to legislate limits on trans fat content of foods, largely eliminating industrial trans fats from all foods (including restaurants) in that country.
The Scottish Parliament, however, is able to legislate over health services, education, local government, housing, criminal and civil justice, and economic development.
An effective democracy must give them enough time to win the support of those elected to legislate and to carry out their program.
But it did not say what maximum arsenic concentration the government should legislate.
Governments can't legislate happiness or ban depression, but public policy can play a role in ensuring that people have time to relax with friends, and pleasant places to do it.
This requires parliaments that can both legislate and govern.
Indeed, they are cleared to leave, and it is only Obama's failure to keep his promise - and the US Congress's failure to legislate their transfer - that is keeping them there.
Congress always pays attention to squeaky wheels, and special interests press it to legislate foreign-policy tactics, codes of conduct, and sanctions for other countries.
But in one of those liberal democracies, Australia, the government recently said that it would legislate to block access to some Web sites.
A special Assembly of the European Parliament, comprising the eurozone members, should have powers - on the model of a national parliament - to legislate and control the executive.

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