legislatures
- 1Plural of legislature.
Several regional legislatures voted to raise the minimum wage this session.
Reformers compared how different national legislatures handle budget debates.
Note
A regular plural that carries every meaning of the singular, including two Canadian ones. In Canada, legislatures can mean the assemblies of the provinces and territories, as opposed to the federal parliament, so "the legislatures" may leave out the national body entirely. The word can also name the buildings themselves: Canadians who toured three legislatures may have walked the halls rather than watched a vote.
legislatures is a form of legislature
legislature, noun: The branch or body of government that has the authority to make new laws and to amend or repeal existing ones. Full entry
- Forms
- legislaturelegislatures plural
- Spelling
- legislature → legislatures: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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