law - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system

Synonyms

• law
• practice of law

More generic

• learned profession

Noun

a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society

Synonyms

• law
• natural law

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• concept
• conception
• construct

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• divine law
• principle
• sound law

Noun

a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature

Synonyms

• law
• law of nature

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• concept
• conception
• construct

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• Archimedes' principle
• Avogadro's hypothesis
• Avogadro's law
• Benford's law
• Bernoulli's law
• Bose-Einstein statistics
• Boyle's law
• Charles's law
• Coulomb's Law
• Dalton's law
• Dalton's law of partial pressures
• Fechner's law
• Fermi-Dirac statistics
• Gay-Lussac's law
• Henry's law
• Hooke's law
• Hubble law
• Hubble's law
• Kepler's law
• Kepler's law of planetary motion
• Kirchhoff's laws
• Mariotte's law
• Mendel's law
• Mendeleev's law
• Newton's law
• Newton's law of gravitation
• Newton's law of motion
• Ohm's law
• Pascal's law
• Pascal's law of fluid pressures
• Pauli exclusion principle
• Planck's law
• Planck's radiation law
• Stevens' law
• Stevens' power law
• Weber's law
• Weber-Fechner law
• all-or-none law
• distribution law
• equilibrium law
• exclusion principle
• law of Archimedes
• law of averages
• law of chemical equilibrium
• law of constant proportion
• law of definite proportions
• law of diminishing returns
• law of effect
• law of equivalent proportions
• law of gravitation
• law of large numbers
• law of mass action
• law of motion
• law of multiple proportions
• law of partia

Related

• theory

Noun

the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do

Synonyms

• jurisprudence
• law
• legal philosophy

More generic

• philosophy

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• contract law
• corporation law
• matrimonial law
• patent law

Noun

legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity

Synonyms

• law

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• instrument
• legal document
• legal instrument
• official document

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• RICO
• RICO Act
• Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
• Riot Act
• anti-drug law
• anti-racketeering law
• antitrust law
• antitrust legislation
• blue law
• blue sky law
• constitution
• fundamental law
• gag law
• homestead law
• organic law
• poor law
• prohibition
• public law
• statute of limitations

Related

• jurisprudence
• law

Noun

the force of policemen and officers

Synonyms

• constabulary
• law
• police
• police force

More generic

• force
• law enforcement agency
• personnel

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• European Law Enforcement Organisation
• Europol
• Mounties
• Mutawa
• Mutawa'een
• New Scotland Yard
• RCMP
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police
• SS
• Schutzstaffel
• Scotland Yard
• gendarmerie
• gendarmery
• posse
• posse comitatus
• secret police

Related

• officer
• police officer
• policeman

Noun

the collection of rules imposed by authority

Synonyms

• jurisprudence
• law

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• accumulation
• aggregation
• assemblage
• collection

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• Islamic law
• Law of Moses
• Mosaic law
• administrative law
• canon law
• case law
• civil law
• commercial law
• common law
• ecclesiastical law
• international law
• law merchant
• law of nations
• law of the land
• martial law
• mercantile law
• military law
• precedent
• securities law
• sharia
• sharia law
• shariah
• shariah law
• statutory law
• tax law

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• law

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