单词	legislate
释义	legislatele‧gis‧late /ˈledʒəsleɪt/ AWL verb [intransitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINlegislate Origin: 1700-1800 legislator Verb Table VERB TABLE legislate Simple Form Present I, you, we, they legislate he, she, it legislates Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they legislated Present perfect I, you, we, they have legislated he, she, it has legislated Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had legislated Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will legislate Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have legislated Continuous Form Present I am legislating he, she, it is legislating you, we, they are legislating Past I, he, she, it was legislating you, we, they were legislating Present perfect I, you, we, they have been legislating he, she, it has been legislating Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been legislating Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be legislating Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been legislating Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Congress failed to legislate effective handgun controls. Should parliament legislate against experiments on animals? States are legislating stricter automobile safety measures for young children. The government was under a lot of public pressure to legislate on equal pay. Thomas Jefferson said that Britain had no right to legislate for its American colonies. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Clearly no government can legislate for such a wide array of circumstances, let alone attempt to enforce such legislation. Governments will have to legislate eventually. The alternative, and it might be effective, would be to legislate for two-tier supervisory boards. This is legislating science at its most pernicious. We have also legislated five times to transform industrial relations, returning power from militants to ordinary union members. What is more Big Government than legislating effort in athletic competition? Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto make a new law► pass to accept a new law in a government or parliament, so that it officially becomes a law: · Congress has passed an education-reform law.· The law was passed with only a few MPs voting against. ► legislate to officially make laws that are intended to control a particular activity or situation: legislate against: · Should parliament legislate against experiments on animals?legislate on: · The government was under a lot of public pressure to legislate on equal pay.legislate for: · Thomas Jefferson said that Britain had no right to legislate for its American colonies.legislate something American: · States are legislating stricter automobile safety measures for young children. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► government · When governments refuse to legislate, as in Britain, sport's organisers dream up complicated schemes to prevent touting.· What is more Big Government than legislating effort in athletic competition?· Clearly no government can legislate for such a wide array of circumstances, let alone attempt to enforce such legislation.· By Enabling Laws the Reich stag empowered the government to legislate in the name of the Reich stag. ► parliament · But, except by private or hybrid Bills, Parliament does not legislate for individual cases.· Indeed Parliament has legislated on matters affecting every aspect of our lives.· In the new Parliament, we will legislate to enforce and enhance these rights.· Political considerations may make it unlikely, even inconceivable that Parliament might legislate in a particular manner.· In the United Kingdom the doctrine of legislative supremacy dictates that Parliament has power to legislate on constitutional matters. ► power · Brussels has no power to legislate for us that we did not give it.· Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment do not limit state power to legislate on economic matters. 29.· In the United Kingdom the doctrine of legislative supremacy dictates that Parliament has power to legislate on constitutional matters. Word family WORD FAMILYnounlegislationlegislatorlegislatureadjectivelegislativeverblegislate 1to make a law about somethinglegislate on Only Parliament has the power to legislate on national matters.legislate for/against The government has promised to legislate against discrimination. We must legislate for equal pay.legislate to do something We must legislate to control drugs.2legislate for something to think about how something may affect what you are doing, and do something to prepare for it:  You can’t legislate for bad luck.
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