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enabling act

enabling act noun: legislation piece enacted by a legislative body that authorizes a dependent entity to exercise specific powers or undertake certain actions.

Noun

enabling act (plural enabling acts)

  1. Legislation piece enacted by a legislative body that authorizes a dependent entity to exercise specific powers or undertake certain actions.
    • I know an enabling act can enable anything, but the Prime Minister feels it would merely enable him to lose the next general election (laugh track).1987 December 17, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “A Diplomatic Incident”, in Yes, Prime Minister, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds)

Proper noun capitalized: Enabling Act

the Enabling Act

  1. (historical) the Enabling Act of 1933 passed by Weimar Republic's Reichstag, which paved the way for the Nazi's seizure of power.
    • As a result, on March 23, he placed before parliament a "Law to Remedy the Distress of People and the Reich" - also called the "Enabling Act."2013 March 23, Marc von Lüpke-Schwarz, “Parliament lost”, in Deutsche Welle
    • When the Reichstag met on 23 March 1933 Hitler was able to secure the passing of an important law, the Enabling Act by: […](Can we date this quote?), “The Reichstag Election”, in BBC Bitesize

enabling act meaning in Tamil

enabling act in Tamil

இயல்விக்கும் சட்டம்

Forms of enabling act

pluralenabling acts

Questions about enabling act

What does enabling act mean?
Enabling act means legislation piece enacted by a legislative body that authorizes a dependent entity to exercise specific powers or undertake certain actions.
What is enabling act in Tamil?
Enabling act in Tamil is இயல்விக்கும் சட்டம். See Enabling act meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is enabling act?
Enabling act can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of enabling act?
The plural of enabling act is enabling acts.

Words near enabling act in the dictionary

  1. enablers
  2. enables
  3. enablest
  4. enableth
  5. enabling
  6. enabling act
  7. enabling acts
  8. enablings
  9. enact
  10. enactable
  11. enacted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: enabling act (page history and authors); Enabling Act (page history and authors); enabling act (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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