Synonyms of the word ordinance


ORDINANCEAPPOINTMENT - ASSIGNMENT - DESIGNATION - NAMING - ORDINATION - PRESCRIPT - REGULATION - RULE - STATUTE

ordinance

  • n. A local law, an edict or decree.
  • n. A religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church.

appointment

  • n. The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust.
  • n. The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position.
  • n. Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
  • n. An arrangement for a meeting; an engagement.
  • n. Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
  • n. (law) The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment) a person to enjoy an estate…
  • n. (government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment…
  • n. (now in the plural) Equipment, furniture.
  • n. (US) A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college.

assignment

  • n. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
  • n. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
  • n. An assigned task.
  • n. A position to which someone is assigned.
  • n. (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
  • n. (law) A transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right.
  • n. (law) A document that effects this transfer.
  • n. (computing) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

designation

  • n. The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.
  • n. Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.
  • n. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.
  • n. Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.

naming

  • adj. Associated with the process of giving a name to a person or thing.
  • n. A ritual or ceremony in which a name is given to a person.
  • n. The process of giving names to things.
  • n. The act of announcing the name of a person, organization etc.
  • v. present participle of name.

ordination

  • n. The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
  • n. (Christianity) The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and…

prescript

  • n. Something prescribed; a rule, regulation or dictate.
  • n. (obsolete) A medical prescription.
  • adj. Directed; prescribed.

regulation

  • n. (uncountable) The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
  • n. (countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct…
  • n. (European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention…
  • n. (genetics) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
  • n. (medicine) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
  • adj. In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.

rule

  • n. A regulation, law, guideline.
  • n. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
  • n. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as…
  • n. A regulating principle.
  • n. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
  • n. A normal condition or state of affairs.
  • n. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
  • n. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or…
  • n. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
  • n. (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing…
  • v. (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
  • v. (slang, intransitive) To excel.
  • v. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
  • v. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
  • v. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by…

statute

  • n. Written law, as laid down by the legislature.
  • n. (law, common law) Legislated rule of society which has been given the force of law by those it governs.

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