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Legislative vs Council - What's the difference?

legislative | council |

As an adjective legislative

is .

As a noun council is

a committee that leads or governs (eg city council, student council).

legislative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; - distinguished from executive: as, a legislative act, a legislative body.
  • Although enormously influential in shaping the laws of the land, The House of Lords are not actually a legislative body .
    The legislative framework provides much opportunity for correction and amendment of poorly thought out bills.

    Noun

    (-)
  • That branch of government which is responsible for making, or having the power to make, a law or laws.
  • council

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
  • Discussion or deliberation.
  • * Milton
  • Satan void of rest, / His potentates to council called by night.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • O great in action and in council wise.

    Hyponyms

    * synod

    See also

    * counsel