enactment

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: en=act=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

enactment, n. 

•  The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

enactment, n.
1 a law enacted.
2 the process of enacting.

THESAURUS

enactment

accomplishment, achievement, act, acting, administration, aping, bill, bylaw, canon, characterization, commission, completion, concurrent resolution, conduct, constitution, decree, demonstration, dictate, dictation, discharge, dispatch, display, dumb show, edict, effectuation, embodiment, enacting, enaction, execution, exhibit, exhibition, exposition, exposure, form, formality, formula, formulary, handling, imitation, impersonation, implementation, incarnation, institution, joint resolution, jus, law, lawmaking, legislation, legislature, lex, management, masquerade, measure, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, opening, ordinance, ordonnance, ostentation, pantomime, pantomiming, passage, passing, performance, performing, perpetration, personation, personification, playing, portrayal, posing, prescript, prescription, presentation, presentment, production, projection, regulation, representation, resolution, retrospective, rubric, rule, ruling, show, showing, standing order, statute, transaction, unfolding, unfoldment, unveiling, varnishing day, vernissage

ROGET THESAURUS

enactment

Command

N command, order, ordinance, act, fiat, hukm, bidding, dictum, hest, behest, call, beck, nod, despatch, dispatch, message, direction, injunction, charge, instructions, appointment, fixture, demand, exaction, imposition, requisition, claim, reclamation, revendication, ultimatum, request, requirement, dictation, dictate, mandate, caveat, decree, senatus consultum, precept, prescript, rescript, writ, ordination, bull, ex cathedra pronouncement, edict, decretal, dispensation, prescription, brevet, placit, ukase, ukaz, firman, hatti- sherif, warrant, passport, mittimus, mandamus, summons, subpoena, nisi prius, interpellation, citation, word, word of command, mot d'ordre, bugle call, trumpet call, beat of drum, tattoo, order of the day, enactment, plebiscite, commanding, authoritative, decretory, decretive, decretal, callable, jussive, in a commanding tone, by a stroke of the pen, by a dash of the pen, by order, at beat of drum, on the first summons, the decree is gone forth, sic volo sic jubeo, le Roi le veut, boutez en avant.

Legality

N legality, legitimacy, legitimateness, legislature, law, code, corpus juris, constitution, pandect, charter, enactment, statute, rule, canon, ordinance, institution, regulation, bylaw, byelaw, decree, ordonnance, standing order, plebiscite, legal process, form, formula, formality, rite, arm of the law, habeas corpus, fieri facias, jurisprudence, nomology, legislation, codification, equity, common law, lex, lex nonscripta, law of nations, droit des gens, international law, jus gentium, jus civile, civil law, canon law, crown law, criminal law, statute law, ecclesiastical law, administrative law, lex mercatoria, constitutionalism, constitutionality, justice, court, tribunal, judge, lawyer, attorney, legal counsel, legal, legitimate, according to law, vested, constitutional, chartered, legalized, lawful, statutable, statutory, legislatorial, legislative, regulatory, regulated, legally, in the eye of the law, de jure, ignorantia legis neminem excusat, ignorance of the law is no excuse, where law ends tyranny begins.