What does enactment mean?

Definitions for enactment
ɛnˈækt mənten·act·ment

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. enactment, passagenoun

    the passing of a law by a legislative body

  2. act, enactmentnoun

    a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body

  3. portrayal, characterization, enactment, personationnoun

    acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture

Wiktionary

  1. enactmentnoun

    The act of enacting, or the state of being enacted.

  2. enactmentnoun

    A piece of legislation that has been properly authorized by a legislative body.

ChatGPT

  1. enactment

    Enactment refers to the process of passing legislation or laws into action by a legislative body. It can also refer to the act of performing or executing something, often in a symbolic or ceremonial manner. Simply put, it's the act of making something into law or putting something into action.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Enactmentnoun

    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

  2. Enactmentnoun

    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

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of enactment in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of enactment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of enactment in a Sentence

  1. Radiologist Steffen Ross:

    The first step would be to do the data acquisition which we use a 3D scanner for, we scan the crime scene and we are also able to scan the dead body, if there is a dead body involved, and then we can put all the data together in the computer and create a virtual crime scene, which is a 3D model of the crime scene, so a re-enactment of the crime.

  2. Hasan Minhaj:

    Jeff Sessions could n’t be here tonight jeff Sessions was busy doing a pre-Civil War re-enactment.

  3. Jenista Mhagama:

    This legislation has already been amended seven times since its enactment ... with the objective of strengthening multiparty democracy in the country.

  4. Tara Joseph:

    Already, international business is facing the pressure of increased tension between the U.S. and China, but the enactment of China's security law for Hong Kong could take the tension to a whole new level, this is show time for Hong Kong.

  5. Harry S. Truman:

    People say life is a story, I differ. It is an enactment of constantly changing, continuously edited , and precisely coordinated scenes, I would say.

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