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en·act (en akt, in-)

transitive verb

  1. to make (a bill, etc.) into a law; pass (a law); decree; ordain
  2. to represent or perform in or as in a play; act out

enact Related Forms

en·ac·tor noun

enact Synonyms

enact

v.

  1. To legislate

    decree, sanction, ordain, order, dictate, make into law, legislate, pass, establish, ratify, vote in, proclaim, vote favorably, determine, transact, authorize, appoint, institute, railroad through, get the floor, put in force, make laws, put through, constitute, fix, set, formulate.

  2. To act

    perform, portray, impersonate, act out; see act 3, perform 2.

enact Usage Examples

Object

  • legislation: Are lower is enacted the legislation for the states determine the future.
  • process-description: Running a Process-Description in a Web Browser You can enact a process-description in a web browser by submitting it to a web enactment server.
  • ordinance: The proposal is evidently based on similar ordinances enacted in other communities with similar public art projects.
  • ritual: Each branch had social programs to bond the membership as a community and enacted rituals and wore regalia for the same purpose.
  • law: The states enacted state laws to help fix the problem.
  • directive: The only really meaningful accounting directive ever enacted on this subject was withdrawn by the accounting bodies in the UK several years ago.

Preposition: into

law: The freedom of these churches from state control meant their right to enter politics and have their own views enacted into law.

Modifying Another Word

  • substantively: It is calculated using tax rates and tax laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by reporting date.
  • originally: Details of individual census records, which contain similar sensitive information, have been kept totally confidential for the 100 years originally enacted.
  • subsequently: The declaration was subsequently enacted with some additions in the form of the Bill of Rights 1688.
  • recently: The recently enacted regulation put in place for pet travel to the European Union has been modified.
  • once: We will want to know whether the Bill, once enacted, might provide a relevant model for European consumer credit legislation.
  • specifically: In and enacted specifically made its involving some type.

Used with why or when

  • that: Last year, a new law was enacted that escalates the penalties for this crime.
  • when: Divorce can be enacted when the spouse has committed a very heinous offense or crime.
  • what: So who better to have show us how the stories in the news enact what is going on in the cosmos than Jenni Harte.

Infinitive complement

protect: And provisions would need to be enacted to protect the rights of ethnic minorities, including 2 million ethnic Turks in Northern Iraq.

Preposition: in

  • summer: He said that loan guarantees enacted in last summer 's energy bill might be used for Fischer-Tropsch diesel fuel.
  • order: What practices are we required to enact in order to partake in disciplined learning?
  • country: I respectfully submit that Your Lordship would find such laws, if enacted in this country, to be utterly repugnant.

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