Usually means: Law-making function of government.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word legislative:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. legislative: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. legislative: Merriam-Webster
  3. legislative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. legislative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. legislative: Collins English Dictionary
  6. legislative: Vocabulary.com
  7. Legislative, legislative: Wordnik
  8. legislative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. legislative: Wiktionary
  10. legislative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. legislative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. legislative: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. legislative: Dictionary.com
  14. legislative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Legislative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Legislative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. legislative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. legislative: Rhymezone
  19. Legislative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. legislative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. legislative: FreeDictionary.org
  22. legislative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. legislative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. legislative: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. legislative: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. legislative: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking.
▸ noun:  That branch of government which is responsible for making, or having the power to make, a law or laws.

Similar:
congressional, judicial, nonlegislative, legislation, regulatory, parliamentary, constitutional, political, legislature, lawmaking, more...

Opposite:
executive, judicial, non-governmental, unofficial, administrative

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bicameral, unicameral, congressional, parliamentary, more...

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Legislative council, legislative assembly, legislative history, legislative power, legislative body, more...

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supreme, quasi, new, poor, august, own, recent, executive, cronache, non, political

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Similar:
congressional, judicial, nonlegislative, legislation, regulatory, parliamentary, constitutional, political, legislature, lawmaking, more...

Opposite:
executive, judicial, non-governmental, unofficial, administrative

Types:
bicameral, unicameral, congressional, parliamentary, more...

Phrases:
Legislative council, legislative assembly, legislative history, legislative power, legislative body, legislative process, legislative bodies, legislative branch, legislative intent, legislative session, more...

Adjectives:
supreme, quasi, new, poor, august, own, recent, executive, cronache, non, political

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    burgundy,     forest green,     charcoal,     gold,     maroon, more...



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