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rulemaking

rulemaking adjective: having the power to make rules.

Adjective

rulemaking (not comparable)

  1. Having the power to make rules.
    • a rulemaking body
    Synonyms:
    regulatory

Noun

rulemaking (countable and uncountable, plural rulemakings)

  1. The act or process of creating rules, especially regulations (as opposed to statutes).
    • From the first day of deliberations — in accordance with the process, called negotiated rulemaking — the parties operated under this assumption: If this balanced group of stakeholders and the government could agree on a standard, then OSHA would publish it in the Federal Register as its proposed...2008 June 12, Susan Podziba, “Safety Starts at the Top”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2021

Synonyms of rulemaking

Forms of rulemaking

pluralrulemakings

Origin of rulemaking

From rule + making.

Questions about rulemaking

What does rulemaking mean?
Rulemaking means having the power to make rules.
What part of speech is rulemaking?
Rulemaking can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near rulemaking in the dictionary

  1. ruleless
  2. rulelessly
  3. rulelessness
  4. rulemaker
  5. rulemakers
  6. rulemaking
  7. rulemakings
  8. rulemonger
  9. rulemongers
  10. ruler
  11. rulered

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