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# législatif — French to English

How French *législatif* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: législatif (38 963), législatifs (19 944). By style: everyday 6 · literary 1 · parliamentary 6 028 · legal and administrative 3 516 · UN documents 49 356.

## legislative

Used about 43 815 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 5 149 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 186 · UN documents ≈ 35 475). Forms: legislation, legislative. Meaning: [legislative in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/legislative/).

- Le gouvernement étasunien a trois branches : l'exécutif, le **législatif** et le judiciaire.
  The U.S. government has three branches: the executive, the **legislative**, and the judicial.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#678237](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/678237) [\#809004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809004))

- Ce député, qui avait été membre du corps **législatif** de l'empire, partageait les idées religieuses d'un père de l'oratoire connu sous le nom de Fouché, duc d'Otrante, dont il avait été la créature et l'ami.
  This deputy had been a member of the **legislative** body of the Empire, and shared the religious ideas of a father of the Oratoire, known under the name of Fouché, Duc d’Otrante, whose creature and friend he had been.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3574)

- Son attitude a changé face à ce règlement **législatif**.
  Faced with this **legislative** regulation, however, its attitude changed.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 416966)

- Consiliul Legislativ (Conseil **législatif**)
  Consiliul Legislativ (**Legislative** Council)
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 349814)

- B. Cadre constitutionnel et **législatif**
  B. Constitutional and **legislative** framework
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 18589527)

## framework

Used about 1 091 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 63 · UN documents ≈ 1 028). Meaning: [framework in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/framework/).

- Les catastrophes naturelles ne peuvent être considérées comme un phénomène homogène qui peut être géré par une stratégie et un cadre **législatif** uniques.
  Natural disasters cannot be understood as homogeneous phenomena with single strategies and a single legal **framework**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 817962)

- Le cadre constitutionnel et **législatif** a été décrit dans le rapport initial.
  The constitutional and statutory **framework** was described in the Initial U.S. Report.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 25953407)

- L &apos; Azerbaïdjan a noté que l &apos; Angola avait amélioré son cadre **législatif** et ratifié plusieurs instruments internationaux.
  Azerbaijan noted improvement in the legal **framework** of Angola and the ratification of several international instruments.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 29234553)

## acts

Used about 713 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 126 · legal and administrative ≈ 73 · UN documents ≈ 514).

- Rien qu'en 1994, les comités de gestion ont passé 4 679 actes **législatifs**, un chiffre énorme et qui représente beaucoup d'argent.
  In 1994 alone, the management committees took 4, 679 **acts**. That is a lot of legislation and money.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1813149)

- De nouveaux actes **législatifs** de l'Union européenne ont été adoptés dans les domaines couverts par l'accord.
  New legal **acts** of the European Union have been adopted in the areas covered by the Agreement.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 237304)

- Un système fiscal est en cours d &apos; élaboration conformément à la loi comptable et à un certain nombre d &apos; autres textes **législatifs** connexes.
  A national tax system is being developed, in compliance with the Accounting Law and few supportive **Acts**.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 5235590)

- Cela menace, par exemple, l'application d'actes **législatifs** aussi bizarres que la dernière résolution du Parlement européen sur la xénophobie.
  It threatens, for example, the implementation of such curious **acts** as the most recent European Parliament resolution on xenophobia.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 864018)

- Elle attribue un numéro d'identification unique, même si l'organisme est notifié en application de plusieurs actes **législatifs** de l'Union.
  It shall assign a single identification number even when the body is notified under several Union **acts**.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4316460)

## parliaments

Used about 63 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 63).

- Nous sommes éminemment convaincus que ce sont les parlements nationaux, et non le Parlement européen, qui devraient édicter des actes **législatifs** concernant, par exemple, l'expulsion des conjoints violents.
  We strongly believe that national **parliaments** and not the European Parliament should lay down laws relating, for example, to eviction of violent partners.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 357777)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Le pays adopta un parlement monocaméral afin de simplifier le processus **législatif**.
  The country adopted a unicameral legislature to simplify the lawmaking process.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13570528](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13570528) [\#13784531](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13784531))

- L'Assemblée des Représentants du Peuple Tibétain, établie en dix-neuf-cent-soixante, est l'organe **législatif** qui détient la plus haute juridiction dans la société des Tibétains en exil.
  The Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies, established in 1960, is the legislature that holds the highest jurisdiction in the society of exiled Tibetans.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and blay\_paul · checked, community translation · [\#540378](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/540378) [\#1738114](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1738114))

- Ou encore, qu'il existe encore un retard en ce qui concerne l'alignement **législatif** dans le domaine du blanchiment d'argent ou de la défense des intérêts financiers.
  Or that there are still deficits in the approximation of laws in the area of money laundering or the protection of financial interests.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 387889)

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