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The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English | Date: 2008

law • noun 1. the law of the landsynonyms: system of laws, body of laws, constitution, code, legal code, charter, rules and regulations, jurisprudence.
2. the legislature issuing lawssynonyms: rule, regulation, statute, enactment, act, decree, edict, command, order, ordinance, commandment, directive, pronouncement, covenant.
3. obey the laws of the gamesynonyms: rule, regulation, principle, direction, instruction, guideline.
4. moral lawssynonyms: rule, principle, precept, standard, criterion, formula, tenet, doctrine, canon.
5. law of naturesynonyms: generalization, general truth, axiom, maxim, truism.
6. go to lawsynonyms: litigation, legal action, legal proceedings, lawsuit.
7. a career in lawsynonyms: the legal profession, the bar.
8. the law has arrivedsynonyms: police, authorities, officers of the law; inf. fuzz, cops, boys in blue.

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