Thesaurus results for LEGISLATOR

legislator

noun

ˈle-jə-ˌslā-tər

Definition of legislator

as in senator

a member of an organized body of persons having the authority to make laws the legislators met in an all-night session to hammer out the details of the bill

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Recent Examples of legislator The parliamentarian’s office advises legislators and their staffs, committees, and each chamber’s presiding officer on legislative procedure and precedent. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026 Multiple people remarked with surprise and relief about the success of the coordination effort, given the Senate's reputation as a group of independent-minded legislators leading separate fiefdoms. — Eric McDaniel, NPR, 28 Aug. 2026 Both candidates have notable endorsements Both candidates have received endorsements from public figures, including legislators and other officials, along with former trustees. — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 27 Aug. 2026 This year’s effort was initially much broader, but a last-minute deal whittled it down to limit certain local taxes in return for legislators’ dropping a measure that would have required anti-tax measures to meet a two-thirds threshold. — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for legislator

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Pacquiao, after all, eventually became a senator and an ally of the disgraced former President Rodrigo Duterte.

— Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
Donalds, in turn, has selected as his running mate Bryan Ávila, a Cuban-American state senator from Hialeah.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of senator

Noun

California lawmakers have agreed on a partial carveout for the film and TV industry from a state cap on tax credits.

— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 29 Aug. 2026
If Congress wanted the president to retain Section 338 power, Albrecht asks, why did lawmakers pass the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which allowed for national security tariffs?

— Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of lawmaker

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In the Mongol model, universal empire was matched with the extreme personalization of political authority, with the Great Khan functioning as the primary lawgiver not accountable to anyone else.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Centuries earlier, the ancient lawgiver Solon had sought to curb pleonexia by legislating against luxury and economic inequality.

— David Lay Williams, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024

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