rulemaking

English

Etymology

From rule +‎ making.

Adjective

rulemaking (not comparable)

  1. Having the power to make rules.
    a rulemaking body

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Noun

rulemaking (countable and uncountable, plural rulemakings)

  1. (law) The act or process of creating rules, especially regulations (as opposed to statutes).
    Synonyms: lawmaking, normmaking, regulation, rulewriting
    • 2008 June 12, Susan Podziba, “Safety Starts at the Top”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 February 2021:
      From the first day of deliberations — in accordance with the process, called negotiated rulemaking — the parties operated under this assumption: If this balanced group of stakeholders and the government could agree on a standard, then OSHA would publish it in the Federal Register as its proposed rule. […] Having conducted 15 negotiated rulemakings for five federal agencies, I expected OSHA to publish the rule in 2006.

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