enacting
Making officially binding
Enacting is putting something into effect or action.
Laws are enacted when passed by a legislature and given legal force.
To enact a scene or role is to perform it: The children enacted the nativity story.
Enacting can also mean carrying out or bringing about: enacting revenge, enacting social change.
Carrying out a task
- enforcingCompelling obedience to rules
- applyingPutting into use
- administeringGiving or applying formally
- operationalizingMaking something practically usable
instituting · establishing · activating · initiating · launching · realizing · fulfilling · accomplishing
Crafting enforceable rules
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- billAmount owed, written
- statuteEnacted written rule
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
decree · regulation · amendment · ratification · codification · parliament · senate · assembly
Depicting in performance
- embodyingGiving physical form to
- depictingShowing through representation
- interpretingExtracting meaning from something
- role-playingActing out characters
staging · dramatizing · presenting · characterization · impersonating · rehearsing · scene · theatrical
executing
Carrying out a task
- enforcingCompelling obedience to rules
- applyingPutting into use
- administeringGiving or applying formally
operationalizing · instituting · establishing · activating · initiating · launching · realizing · fulfilling · accomplishing · completing
lawmaking
Crafting enforceable rules
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- billAmount owed, written
- statuteEnacted written rule
ordinance · decree · regulation · amendment · ratification · codification · parliament · senate · assembly · governance
portraying
Depicting in performance
- embodyingGiving physical form to
- depictingShowing through representation
- interpretingExtracting meaning from something
role-playing · staging · dramatizing · presenting · characterization · impersonating · rehearsing · scene · theatrical · monologue
- actingperforming, playacting, actress, auditioning, casting
- approvalsapproved, approve, authorizing, certification, endorsing
- initiativetaking initiative, go for it, initiating, take the lead, proactive
enactingrepealing
Abolishing enacted legislation
abolishing · revoking · annulling · rescinding · canceling
enactingsuspending
Temporarily ceasing activity
halting · stopping · discontinuing · terminating · preventing
enactingabandoning
Leaving permanently behind
halting · stopping · discontinuing · ceasing · neglecting