Meanings
plural lawmakers
- One who makes or enacts laws.
“Many members are only now beginning to understand that,” one GOP lawmaker told CNN.
2025 January 11, Annie Grayer, “Trump border czar privately tempers Republican lawmaker expectations on administration’s initial deportation operation”, in CNN, archived from the original on 21 Mar 20252 more examples
Lawmakers in France voted over the weekend of April 10/11 to introduce measures to restrict flights on routes where the same journey can be made by rail in under two and a half hours.
2021 April 21, “French to favour rail over short-haul flights”, in RAIL, number 929, page 11Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Mitt Romney of Utah both confirmed that a bipartisan group of lawmakers will have a series of video meetings starting in the next several days to see if they could agree on a deal soon.
2022 January 20, Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer, Clare Foran, “Senate votes to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general”, in CNN, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2022
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishlawemaker
- Englishlawmaker
From Middle English lawemaker, lawe maker, equivalent to law + maker.
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Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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“lawmaker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lawmaker. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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