What does legislation mean?
Word: Legislation
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Legislation means the laws that a parliament or other law-making body has passed, taken together. It can also mean the work of making those laws.
How do you spell legislation?
Syllables: leg - is - la - tion
Tricky part: The soft sound after the opening le is spelt with a plain g, the same letter legal uses, not with j or dg.
Watch out for: lejislation, ledgislation
Memory tip: Legislation is all about the law, and so is legal: let legal lend you its g.
Legislation in a sentence
Example 1: New legislation on plastic bags means the shops in our town now pack things in cloth ones.
Example 2: Our civics teacher showed us how legislation is debated in both Houses before it is passed.
Example 3: The state brought in fresh legislation to protect the mangroves along its coast.
Fun Fact
England's Elementary Education Act of 1870 was a piece of legislation that set up local school boards to build schools for young children.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) goverment
b) democrasy
c) ellection
d) legislation
Show answer
d) legislation. Democracy ends in cy, government keeps the n before ment, and election has only one l.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
aetiloslgni
a) legislative
b) legislature
c) legislator
d) legislation
Show answer
d) legislation. The jumble has an n but no r, u or v, and only one option fits those letters.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
leg_sl_tion
a) a, a
b) i, a
c) i, e
d) e, a
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b) i, a. The second syllable has a short i, and the long a sound before the ending is a single a.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The district welcomed the legislasion on clean rivers when it finally came into force last spring.
a) legislasion
b) finally
c) spring
d) district
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a) legislasion. The shun sound at the end is written tion here, just as in station.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A new piece of legislation on road safety would set out ____.
a) the names of famous racers
b) rules that drivers must follow
c) a map of the city's main roads
d) the price of a new scooter
Show answer
b) rules that drivers must follow
2. Before it becomes legislation, a proposal placed before Parliament is called a ____.
a) ballot
b) bill
c) budget
d) petition
Show answer
b) bill
