Usually means: Law granting government extraordinary powers.
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  1. enabling act: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. enabling act: Collins English Dictionary
  3. enabling act: Vocabulary.com
  4. enabling act: Dictionary.com
  5. Enabling Act (US), Enabling Act, Enabling act: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. enabling act: Rhymezone
  7. enabling act: FreeDictionary.org
  8. enabling act: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. enabling act: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Enabling Act: Wiktionary

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  1. Enabling Act (U.S.), Enabling Act (US), Enabling Act (United Kingdom), Enabling act (United States), Enabling act (Venezuela), Enabling act (disambiguation), Enabling act (general), enabling act: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Enabling Act)

noun:  (politics) Legislation piece enacted by a legislative body that authorizes a dependent entity to exercise specific powers or undertake certain actions.
noun:  (historical) the Enabling Act of 1933 passed by Weimar Republic's Reichstag, which paved the way for the Nazi's seizure of power.

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