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单词 legislate
释义
legislate
verb[I]
formal
uk
/ˈledʒ.ɪ.sleɪt/us
/ˈledʒ.ə.sleɪt/
If agovernmentlegislates, it makes a newlaw:
立法
Theypromisedto legislateagainstcigaretteadvertising.他们承诺要立法来打击香烟广告。
It's hard to legislatefor(= make alawthat willprotect)theownershipof anidea.通过立法来保护创意所有权非常困难。
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(Definition oflegislatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

legislate| American Dictionary

legislate
verb[I/T]
us
/ˈledʒ·əsˌleɪt/
politics & government
to makelaws:
[T]The Clean AirActlegislated areductionofpollutionfrompowerplants.
(Definition oflegislatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

legislate| Business English

legislate
verb[IorT]
LAW
uk
/ˈledʒɪsleɪt/us
to makerulesorlawsrelatingto aparticularactivity:
We cannot legislate achargeonbusinessesoutsidethestate.
legislate for/on sthThepurposeof the Electronic CommunicationsBillwas to legislate for aframeworkin whiche-commercecouldsafelytakeplace.
legislate against sthLegislating againstcarbonemissionsiscentralto the Kyoto Protocolagreement.
legislate on sthIn theinterestsofbalancingtheeconomy,Congressmust legislate ontrade.
legislate to do sthSeveralministersare legislating tobanpoliticaldonationsfrompeoplenotregisteredtovote.
(Definition oflegislatefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflegislate

legislate
Men's instinctive reaction was tolegislatethe evil out of existence.
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Reformers denigrated the casual and inhumane mode of legislating in the eighteenth century and estimated that over 200 capital offences had been created.
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The base-case scenario represents a situation where legislated emission norms are met at all emission sources.
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Specifically, it has failed to play an active and independent role in legislating public policies and exercising fiscal control over the national budget.
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State agencies directly financed the industrial concerns or participated in legislating laws to favor this growth.
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This further demonstrated the culpability of those who controlled parliament and legislated only in their own interest.
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The problems and pitfalls of developing and legislating health policy are taken up in the next two papers.
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After an initial effort to make the ban universal around 1760, the opposite and more realistic solution of intermarriage was finally legislated in 1765.
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Changes in rules that have already been legislated, but are being phased in gradually, are assumed to be fully in place from the start.
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Despite opposition from anti-party reformers, parties in most states legislated for types of ballot that preserved party control of the electorate.
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Political fund regulation should be legislated before other political reform.
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In particular, it began tolegislatefor the conduct and settlement of industrial disputes.
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Where language policies for multilingualism work at the state level, it is probably mostly in cases of recognizing and legislating already established situations.
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A bill of rights does not negate political responsibility tolegislatein the public interest.
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Serious methodologists do not, in fact, claim a privileged position from which tolegislatethe practice of economics.
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