lawmaker

English

Etymology

From Middle English lawemaker, lawe maker, equivalent to law +‎ maker.

Pronunciation

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Noun

lawmaker (plural lawmakers)

1. One who makes or enacts laws.

   Hyponyms: legislator, regulator

   • 2021 April 21, “French to favour rail over short-haul flights”, in RAIL, number 929, page 11:

     Lawmakers in France voted over the weekend of April 10/11 to introduce measures to restrict flights on routes where the same journey can be made by rail in under two and a half hours.

   • 2022 January 20, Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer and Clare Foran, “Senate votes to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Mitt Romney of Utah both confirmed that a bipartisan group of lawmakers will have a series of video meetings starting in the next several days to see if they could agree on a deal soon.

   • 2025 January 11, Annie Grayer, “Trump border czar privately tempers Republican lawmaker expectations on administration’s initial deportation operation”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     “Many members are only now beginning to understand that,” one GOP lawmaker told CNN.

Related terms

• lawgiver
• lawmaking

Translations

legislator — see legislator