Meaning of legislative in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Qualitative Adjective
    1. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

    /ˈlɛdʒəˌsleɪdɪv/

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  1. Qualitative Adjective

    legislative

    Definitions

    1. relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature

    Examples

    • « legislative council »
  2. 2. of or relating to or created by legislation

    Examples

    • « legislative proposal »

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  • « Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour. »
    Gro Harlem Brundtland
  • « Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme. »
    Sherwood Boehlert
  • « The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill to end the bailouts cut spending and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things. »
    Mitch McConnell
  • « There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. »
    Elliot Richardson
  • « The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. »
    Samuel Adams

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