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LEGISLATURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Persons who make or amend or repeal laws
Synonyms:
general assembly; law-makers; legislative assembly; legislative body; legislature
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("legislature" is a kind of...):
assembly (a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose)
Domain member category:
scrutin uninomial system; scrutin uninominal voting system; single-member system; uninominal system; uninominal voting system (based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district)
sergeant at arms; serjeant-at-arms (an officer (as of a legislature or court) who maintains order and executes commands)
appropriation (money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose)
one-member; uninominal (based on the system of having only one member from each district (as of a legislature))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legislature"):
senate (assembly possessing high legislative powers)
Congress; U.S. Congress; United States Congress; US Congress (the legislature of the United States government)
house (an official assembly having legislative powers)
legislative council (a unicameral legislature)
congress (a national legislative assembly)
diet (a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan))
parliament (a legislative assembly in certain countries)
Duma (a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics in the former USSR)
Holonyms ("legislature" is a member of...):
authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)
Derivation:
legislate (make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation)
