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lawmaker

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,470 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: lawmakers

A lawmaker is somebody who helps make the laws of a country. Lawmakers voted, urge lawmakers, a group of lawmakers.

It is the American press word for a member of Congress or a state legislature, and British reporting uses MP instead. It describes the function, which is why it works in writing about any country.

Definitions of lawmaker

  1. 1nounlawmakerSomebody who helps make the laws of a country.B2+

    “Lawmakers passed a bill to raise the minimum wage.”

lawmaker is a legislator.

Where it comes from

Middle English lawe maker is law plus maker.

  1. Middle English

    lawemaker

  2. English, today

    lawmaker

From Middle English lawemaker, lawe maker, equivalent to law + maker.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

lawmaker in the wild

  • A legislator, or lawmaker, is a person who writes and passes laws, especially someone who is a member of a legislature.

    Legislator

  • Diocles is said to have been the beloved of Philolaus of the Bacchiadae family of Corinth who arose as Nomothete (lawmaker) at Thebes.

    Diocles of Corinth

  • Demonax was an ancient Greek lawmaker of the style of Solon and Lycurgus, known for reforming the constitution of the Cyrenaeans.

    Demonax (lawmaker)

  • Hoffman and his wife, along with fellow Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, were shot in a 2025 spree shooting.

    John Hoffman (Minnesota politician)

  • The Cambodian Liberty Party is a Cambodian political party founded in November 2015 by former Cambodian People's Party lawmaker Chea Chamroeun.

    Cambodian Liberty Party

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.