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law

noun

1 the law of the land:

rules and regulations, system of laws, body of laws, constitution, legislation, code, legal code, charter;

jurisprudence.

▷antonyms anarchy.

2 a new law was passed to make divorce easier and simpler:

regulation, statute, enactment, act, bill, decree, edict, rule, ruling, resolution, promulgation, measure, motion, dictum, command, order, stipulation, commandment, directive, pronouncement, ratification, proclamation, dictate, diktat, fiat, covenant, demand, bylaw;

North American ordinance;

in Tsarist Russia ukase;

in Spain & Spanish-speaking countries pronunciamento.

3 (the law) a career in the law:

the legal profession, the bar, barristers and solicitors collectively.

4 he's got to pay for it, or I'll take him to law:

litigation, legal action, legal proceedings, lawsuit, justice.

5 (the law) informal on the run from the law:

the police, the officers of the law, the forces of law and order, law-enforcement officers, police officers, policemen, policewomen, the police force, the constabulary;

informal the cops, the fuzz, the boys in blue, the long arm of the law;

British, informal the (Old) Bill, the bobbies, the busies, the bizzies, the coppers, the rozzers, the force, plod, PC Plod;

North American, informal the heat;

informal derogatory the pigs, the filth, Babylon.

6 the laws of the game:

rule, regulation, principle, convention, direction, instruction, guideline, practice.

7 a moral law:

principle, rule, precept, directive, direction, injunction, instruction, commandment, prescription, standard, criterion, belief, creed, credo, ethic, maxim, formula, tenet, doctrine, canon;

Judaism mitzvah.

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legal, judicial, juridical, jural relating to laws