legislation
/ˌledʒɪsˈleɪʃn/ (bre, ipa) · /ˌledʒɪsˈleɪʃn/ (ame, ipa) · /ˌle-jə-ˈslā-shən/ (ame, mw)
legislation — noun
1. a written rule or set of rules that a government has formally approved and that
a written rule or set of rules that a government has formally approved and that people in a country are required to obey
New data privacy legislation requires companies to get permission before collecting personal information from users.
collocation: new + legislation on a topic
Under recent environmental legislation, factories must cut carbon emissions by twenty percent by next year.
preposition: under + legislation (indicating authority)
The government plans to introduce tough new legislation on knife crime before the end of the year.
New workplace safety legislation requires all building sites to provide hard hats and safety harnesses.
- law
the most general term; legislation suggests formal, often multi-part, written rules
- regulation
more specific — rules made by an authority to control how something operates
- statute
formal term for a written law passed by a legislative body; less common in everyday language
- act
refers to a single piece of legislation passed by a parliament
常見錯誤
2. the entire activity of creating new laws, which includes suggesting ideas, discu
the entire activity of creating new laws, which includes suggesting ideas, discussing them, and finally giving them official approval
Legislation is often a slow process because each proposed law needs review by several committees.
uncountable as process: 'Legislation is...'
The senator has spent most of her career involved in legislation on education reform.
collocation: involved in legislation on [topic]
Citizens can take part in legislation by sharing their views during public government consultations.
The university invited legal experts to help with legislation on artificial intelligence.
- lawmaking
more informal and direct; interchangeable in many contexts
- governance
broader term covering all aspects of running a country, not just making laws
- law reform
narrower — specifically about improving or changing existing laws
- abolition
the act of officially ending a law or system, the opposite of creating one
用法筆記
Only sense that refers to the activity rather than the resulting written rules. Unlike sense 1 (LAWS AND RULES), this sense cannot be described with 'a piece of' or modified with adjectives such as 'tough' or 'new'.