'Enactment' definitions:
Definition of 'enactment'
(from WordNet)
noun
The passing of a law by a legislative body [syn: enactment, passage]
noun
A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body [syn: act, enactment]
noun
Acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture [syn: portrayal, characterization, enactment, personation]
Definition of 'Enactment'
From: GCIDE
- Enactment \En*act"ment\, n.
- 1. The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'enactment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- act,
- acting,
- administration,
- aping,
- bill,
- bylaw,
- canon,
- characterization,
- commission,
- completion,
- concurrent resolution,
- conduct,
- constitution,
- decree,
- demonstration,
- dictate,
- dictation,
- discharge,
- dispatch,
- display,
- dumb show,
- edict,
- effectuation,
- embodiment,
- enacting,
- enaction,
- execution,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exposition,
- exposure,
- form,
- formality,
- formula,
- formulary,
- handling,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- implementation,
- incarnation,
- institution,
- joint resolution,
- jus,
- law,
- lawmaking,
- legislation,
- legislature,
- lex,
- management,
- masquerade,
- measure,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- opening,
- ordinance,
- ordonnance,
- ostentation,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- passage,
- passing,
- performance,
- performing,
- perpetration,
- personation,
- personification,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- posing,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- presentation,
- presentment,
- production,
- projection,
- regulation,
- representation,
- resolution,
- retrospective,
- rubric,
- rule,
- ruling,
- show,
- showing,
- standing order,
- statute,
- transaction,
- unfolding,
- unfoldment,
- unveiling,
- varnishing day,
- vernissage