lawmaker

Language: en

🇺🇸 /ˈlɔˌmeɪkɜr/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    A person who makes or enacts laws; a legislator or member of a legislative body.; A person or group that establishes rules, regulations, or standards in a particular field or context.; A sovereign or ruler who has the authority to create and enforce laws, especially in historical or archaic contexts.

🔗 Details

Word forms

countable Plural: lawmakers

Collocations

federal lawmakerstate lawmakerlawmakers votedlawmakers passedlawmakers introduced a bill

Derivatives

lawmaking

Synonyms

legislatorcongressmanparliamentariansenatorrepresentative

Commonly confused

legislator
EN: 'Legislator' is the more formal and precise term for someone who makes laws; 'lawmaker' is a common journalistic synonym that is slightly less formal.
politician
EN: 'Politician' is broader, referring to anyone involved in politics, while 'lawmaker' specifically denotes someone with legislative power.

Spelling tips

EN: Write as one word ('lawmaker'), not two ('law maker'). The compound is fully closed in standard usage.

💬 Examples

  1. The lawmaker introduced a new bill to reform the healthcare system.

  2. As a lawmaker in the tech industry, the company set new standards for data privacy.

  3. In ancient times, the king was the sole lawmaker of the realm.