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Legislation vs Grandfathering - What's the difference?

legislation | grandfathering |

As nouns the difference between legislation and grandfathering

is that legislation is the act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted while grandfathering is exemption from new legislation or regulations.

As a verb grandfathering is

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legislation

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.
  • Law which has been enacted by legislature or other governing body

    • grandfathering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (-)
  • Exemption from new legislation or regulations.
  • *2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 311:
  • *:The grandfathering of boundaries has been, on average, a pacifying development […].