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Synonyms for ordinance
ˈɔr dn ənsor·di·nance

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  1. ordinance

    Law, in its ideal, is the statement of a principle of right in mandatory form, by competent authority, with adequate penalty for disobedience; in common use, the term is applied to any legislative act, however imperfect or unjust. Command and commandment are personal and particular; as, the commands of a parent; the ten commandments. An edict is the act of an absolute sovereign or other authority; we speak of the edict of an emperor, the decree of a court. A mandate is specific, for an occasion or a purpose; a superior court issues its mandate to an inferior court to send up its records. Statute is the recognized legal term for a specific law; enactment is the more vague and general expression. We speak of algebraic or chemical formulas, municipal ordinances, military orders, army regulations, ecclesiastical canons, the rules of a business house. Law is often used, also, for a recognized principle, whose violation is attended with injury or loss that acts like a penalty; as, the laws of business; the laws of nature. In more strictly scientific use, a natural law is simply a recognized system of sequences or relations; as, Kepler's laws of planetary distances. A code is a system of laws; jurisprudence is the science of law, or a system of laws scientifically considered, classed, and interpreted; legislation, primarily the act of legislating, denotes also the body of statutes enacted by a legislative body. An economy (Greek oikonomia, primarily the management of a house) is any comprehensive system of administration; as, domestic economy; but the word is extended to the administration or government of a state or people, signifying a body of laws and regulations, with the entire system, political or religious, especially the latter, of which they form a part; as, the code of Draco, Roman jurisprudence, British legislation, the Mosaic economy. Law is also used as a collective noun for a system of laws or recognized rules or regulations, including not only all special laws, but the principles on which they are based. The Mosaic economy is known also as the Mosaic law, and we speak of the English common law, or the law of nations. Polity (Greek politeia, from polis, a city) signifies the form, constitution, or method of government of a nation, state, church, or other institution; in usage it differs from economy as applying rather to the system, while economy applies especially to method, or to the system as administered; an economy might be termed a polity considered with especial reference to its practical administration, hence commonly with special reference to details or particulars, while polity has more reference to broad principles.

    Synonyms:
    canon, code, command, commandment, decree, economy, edict, enactment, formula, jurisprudence, law, legislation, mandate, order, polity, principle, regulation, rule, statute

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ordinance

    Synonyms:
    statute, institute, decree, law, edict, regulation, rule

    Antonyms:
    custom, usage, prescription

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. regulation, ordinancenoun

    an authoritative rule

    Synonyms:
    ordination, regulating, regulation, regularization, rule, regularisation

  2. ordinancenoun

    a statute enacted by a city government

    Synonyms:
    regulation, ordination

  3. ordination, ordinancenoun

    the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders

    "the rabbi's family was present for his ordination"

    Synonyms:
    ordering, regulation, order, ordination

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ordinancenoun

    Synonyms:
    decree, edict, law, enactment, statute

  2. ordinancenoun

    Synonyms:
    rite, ceremony, observance, sacrament

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How to use ordinance in a sentence?

  1. Robert D. Sprecht:

    Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

  2. Maria Tam:

    At the moment there are still plenty of tools. We have different articles in the police force ordinance and articles in the public order ordinance which we can still invoke to control the situation. We haven't got to the stage when we really have to engage in enacted laws by the chief executive with the executive council to, for example, enact anti-mask or interception of internet messages. We're quite a distance from that.

  3. Greg Harris:

    ( iStock) A similar city nudity ordinance had been in effect in Loveland before the September ruling. Krokos informed the officer of how the topless ban law was now unconstitutional, but Effie Krokos recalls him only hearing rumors about Fort Collins, not Loveland, according to the outlet. COLORADO WOMAN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO 1996 BABY FAITH COLD CASE MURDER Ive heard rumor of it in Fort Collins but Fort Collins was Fort Collins. But not throughout the state.

  4. David Dewhirst:

    This tax ordinance’s legal and constitutional infirmities are patently obvious, that’s what makes this whole thing so chilling.

  5. Mayor Steve Adler:

    Certainly, [ housing ] prices have been going up in Austin.The ordinance that we passed didnt create more people experiencing homelessness. It did make people that were experiencing homelessness more visible.


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