law
- noun
- /lɔ/
- Don't break the road laws, follow the rules.
- law enforcement
- rules and laws
- state law
They support anti trans laws across the country.
- They support anti trans laws across the country.
- Let's assume Trump did violate the law rather flagrantly.
- All it meant was is that under law, slaves were property.
- And that is why we need antitrust laws now more than ever.
- That means the law as it is written.
- When we're elected, one of the first laws we'll pass is the following.
- Though we, we do have these hate speech laws, they are applied.
- It is our future that lays down the laws of our today.
Examples
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And that is why we need antitrust laws now more than ever.
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In reaction, the Georgia legislature passed a law against using public funds for desegregated schools.
Academic text (2013) -
And to those who broke the law, you will pay.
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But who wrote the law rules the world?
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That means the law as it is written.
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No one in America by law has to pay a tip.
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That, in fact, violates federal law, and for good reason.
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The law said they didn't kill my brother.
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And Senator Carmichael's statement shows that he was aware of law enforcement's opposition to the bill.
Academic text (2017) -
In every society, the law is established to maintain order and protect citizens.
Synonyms
An official rule made by an authority
Laws made and passed by a parliament or other elected body
An official rule made by a local government
A rule made by a group that tells members how to behave and run the group
A set of laws a country officially uses
Laws made by a parliament or congress and written down
Law made by parliament or congress, not by judges
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
A situation where only the strongest people succeed without fair rules
Compounds
The work police do to stop crime, find criminals, and make people obey the law
A man in your family by marriage, for example your spouse's brother or your sister's husband
- Formal
All people and organizations, including officials, must follow the same fair laws
A group that makes sure people follow rules and stops crime and finds who did it
- Formal
Temporary military rule over a country that replaces normal law during a war or crisis
- Specialized
A rule that describes how nature behaves, often shown with a formula
- Specialized
A system where judges use past court decisions and customs rather than written laws
A system of rules for life and law based on the Qur'an and the Prophet Muhammad's teachings
- Specialized
Government rules that stop one company from controlling a market and protect competition
- Specialized
A basic rule that explains how energy moves and changes in closed systems
The rules a country or state has about when and how people can legally end a pregnancy
- Formal
A rule that the government must follow fair legal steps before taking someone's life, freedom, or property
Work a lawyer does to give advice, prepare documents, and represent people in court
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Laws in the United States that kept Black and white people apart, mainly in the South
- Specialized
Rules that control the behavior, trials, and punishments of people in the armed forces
Religious laws given by God to the Israelites through Moses, including the Ten Commandments
- Specialized
Energy naturally spreads from hot places to cold ones, increasing disorder
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A rule that shows how pushes and pulls change how things move, for example by starting or stopping
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A rule people follow because of custom rather than being made by the government
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Law that deals with agreements and the duties people or businesses have to each other
- Specialized
Three basic rules that explain how pushes and pulls change the motion of objects
- Specialized
A relationship the law accepts when a couple live together and behave as if married
- Formal
A law that helps buyers get a refund or replacement for vehicles that keep breaking
- Specialized
A system of rules used in ancient Rome that influenced many modern civil laws
- Specialized
When one object pushes another, the other object pushes back equally
- Formal
Acting as if you have legal power when you do not, often to do illegal acts
- Formal
A set of basic rules that explains how a country's government works and what rights people have
- Specialized
When a sample gets larger, its average gets closer to the average of the whole group
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After a point, adding more work gives smaller extra results
- Specialized
Three basic rules that explain how objects move and push each other in physics
How Binding
Surface Forms
Etymology
Law comes from an old word meaning 'to lay', as in lay. A law is something 'laid down' by rulers or a government to tell people how to behave, so that explains why we use it for official rules.