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lawmaker

noun

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from lawemaker

Definitions

  1. One who makes or enacts laws.

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

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA