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legislator Definition

leg·is·la·tor (-lāt′ər, -lā′tôr′)

noun

a member of a legislative assembly; lawmaker

Etymology: L legis lator, lit., a proposer of a law: for bases see legislation

legislator Synonyms

legislator

n.

lawmaker, lawgiver, assemblyman, congressman, congresswoman, representative, senator, member of Congress, member of parliament, M.P., floor leader, deputy, councilman, alderman; see also administrator.

legislator Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • world: Akua Lezli Hope, African American woman poet, writer, paper maker - Poets are the unofficial legislators of the world.

Converse of object

  • persuade: I only hope that such cases will persuade the legislators to act over the boxes.
  • elect: Back to top General observations 4. The task of elected legislators is to decide what the law should be.
  • approach: Season approaches legislators able to tell insurance by families.
  • urge: Furthermore, we are urging legislators to incorporate the International Bill of Rights into domestic law.
  • influence: That is influencing the legislators of some of the laws dealing with consumer information.
  • include: In the context of global warming there are a wealth of targets for action including legislators, corporate executives and the general public.

Adjective modifier

  • unacknowledged: Pound, like Shelley, seems to have been convinced that poets ' are the unacknowledged legislators of the world ' .
  • European: The European legislators instituted a further policy decision which is enshrined in Art.
  • American: American legislators have always had a tendency to take a simplistic sledgehammer to a patch of complex social oil.
  • French: Indeed, the French legislator has introduced certain measures to attract small companies.
  • international: Its role is to lobby British and international legislators to ensure conditions are right for UK businesses to compete effectively.
  • key: For all its a good used coverage guarantees victims countless key legislators.

Modifies a noun

  • cannot: If legislators cannot put into plain English what Parliament want to achieve then they should go back to the drawing board.

Noun used with modifier

  • state: Can pool their year state legislators get your rating.
  • season: Season approaches legislators we may call result using data.
  • approach: Season approaches legislators we may call result using data.
  • woman: Even with a well-developed feminist movement, the United States has been a laggard in terms of women legislators.
  • year: Can pool their year state legislators get your rating.
  • opposition: Opposition legislators in the British parliament again refused to convene, citing the ruling party's refusal to commence a national election.