单词 | enactment |
释义 | enactment (once / 1892 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY enactment: enactments+/act: actable, acted, acting, action, active, actor, actress, acts, actuate, counteract, enact, interact, overact, underact/actable: unactable/acting: actings, self-acting/action: actionable, actioned, actions, inaction/activate: activated, activates, activating, activation, activator, deactivate, reactivate/activating: self-activating/activation: activations/activator: activators/active: activate, actively, activeness, activer, actives, activest, activity, hyperactive, inactive, overactive, underactive/activity: activities/actor: actors/actress: actresses/actuate: actuated, actuates, actuating, actuation, actuator/actuator: actuators/counteract: counteracted, counteracting, counteraction, counteractive, counteracts/counteraction: counteractions/deactivate: deactivated, deactivates, deactivating, deactivation/enact: enacted, enacting, enactment, enacts, reenact/hyperactive: hyperactively, hyperactivity/inaction: inactions/inactivate: inactivated, inactivates, inactivating, inactivation/inactive: inactivate, inactively, inactiveness, inactivity/inactivity: inactivities/interact: interacted, interacting, interaction, interactive, interacts/interaction: interactional, interactions/interactive: interactively/overact: overacted, overacting, overacts/overacting: overactings/overactive: overactivity/reactivate: reactivated, reactivates, reactivating/reenact: reenacted, reenacting, reenactment, reenacts/reenactment: reenactments/underact: underacted, underacting, underacts USAGE EXAMPLESWhile progress on the local level is important, the entire state desperately needs the economic boom that accompanies the enactment of right-to-work laws. Wall Street Journal(Dec 06, 2016) Though Imago is a commercial venture, she sees it as an art project as well, a study of every self-portraitist’s battle between enactment and surrender. New York Times(Nov 29, 2016) But nearly seven years after its enactment, 10 percent of the population is ignoring the law. Washington Times(Nov 15, 2016) 1 1n the passing of a law by a legislative body Syn|Hyper passage lawmaking, legislating, legislation the act of making or enacting laws 2n a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper act nullity something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity) decree, edict, fiat, order, rescripta legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) legislative act, statutean act passed by a legislative body consent decreean agreement between two parties that is sanctioned by the court; for example, a company might agree to stop certain questionable practices without admitting guilt curfewan order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited decree nisia decree issued on a first petition for divorce; becomes absolute at some later date imperial decreea decree issued by a sovereign ruler judicial separation, legal separationa judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart programmaan edict that has been publicly posted ban, prohibition, proscriptiona decree that prohibits something staya judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted fair-trade actformerly a state law that protected manufacturers from price-cutting by allowing them to set minimum retail prices for their merchandise; eliminated by the United States Congress in 1975 Stamp Actan act passed by the British Parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American Colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents; opposition by the Colonies resulted in the repeal of the act in 1766 enabling act, enabling clausea provision in a law that confers on appropriate officials the power to implement or enforce the law FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Actan act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; intended to increase United States counterintelligence; separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance ordinancea statute enacted by a city government special acta legislative act that applies only to a particular person or particular district bull, papal bulla formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla) instrument, legal document, legal instrument, official document (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right n acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture Syn|Hypo|Hyper characterisation, characterization, personation, portrayal impression an impressionistic portrayal of a person character, part, persona, role, theatrical rolean actor's portrayal of someone in a play bit part, minor rolea small role heavya serious (or tragic) role in a play herothe principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem ingenuethe role of an innocent artless young woman in a play name part, title rolethe role of the character after whom the play is named heroinethe main good female character in a work of fiction baddie, villainthe principal bad character in a film or work of fiction acting, performing, playacting, playing the performance of a part or role in a drama |
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