Lawmakings

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The process of creating, drafting, and enacting legal statutes or regulations by a governing body
2. The act of formulating legal provisions or amendments as part of legislative functions
3. The collective actions involved in establishing laws and policies through formal decision-making processes

Etymology: "Lawmakings" is the plural of "lawmaking," so it refers to several acts or instances of making laws rather than the activity as a whole. The base term is a plain compound of "law" and "making," built from two native English elements: "law" comes from Old English "lagu," and "making" is the gerund-style noun formed from the verb "make." Put together, the compound describes the work of producing statutes, and the plural simply counts individual episodes of that work, as in a session or a series of legislative decisions.

Synonyms: legislation, law creation, statutory enactments, law formulation, law drafting

Antonyms: lawbreaking, lawlessness, disobedience, anarchy, lawlessness