Usually means: Law formally enacted by legislature.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. statute: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. statute: Merriam-Webster
  3. statute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. statute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. statute: Collins English Dictionary
  6. statute: Vocabulary.com
  7. Statute, statute: Wordnik
  8. statute: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. statute: Wiktionary
  10. statute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. statute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. statute: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. statute: Dictionary.com
  14. statute: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. statute: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Statute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Statute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. statute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. statute: Rhymezone
  20. Statute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. statute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. statute: FreeDictionary.org
  23. statute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. statute: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. statute: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. statute: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. statute: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. STATUTE: Accounting Glossary
  9. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  10. Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology (No longer online)
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  13. statute: Legal dictionary
  14. statute: Financial dictionary
  15. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. statute: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  3. statute: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. statute: Genealogy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. statute: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A written law or ordinance passed by a legislative body.
noun:  A rule of an organization or institution.
noun:  (archaic, biblical) A law or decree made by a sovereign, or by God.
noun:  (law, historical) A (theoretical) type of statutory law specified as regulating a person or thing.
noun:  Legal status of being subject to this.
noun:  (historical) A statute fair.

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