legislator
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.
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.
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