legislate

Verb

Plain form legislate

Third-person singular legislates

Past tense legislated

Past participle legislated

Present participle legislating

1. If you legislate, then you are creating a rule or a law. Typically, legislating is only done by the people in government who write laws for all citizens.

   The Congress and Senate legislate thousands of laws a year.

   It's a bad idea to try to legislate how people should spend their money.