The turning point for the Karen meme, Schimkowitz says, came in May when a woman called the police after a Black birdwatcher in New York’s Central Park asked her to put a leash on her dog in keeping with a local ordinance.
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Ordinance
/ˈɔːdɪnəns/
Synonyms for "ordinance" (128 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Noun(8 words)
Preposition(1 words)
by law
Strong matches (38)
Related words (64)
measuremitzvahmode of worshipmoralmysterynormobservanceofficeorderorder of worshipordonnancepracticepreceptprescribed formprescriptprescriptionprincipiumprincipleproclamationpronouncement
Adverb(1 words)
more swedish lag
Determiner(1 words)
most written law
Adjective(4 words)
municipal building codemunicipal policystate government rulewritten statutes
Noun(14 words)
municipal meeting topicsnorms and lawsobservanceofficial regulationorder maintaining lawsordinationpraetor's edictpublic edictriteritualstatutetanzimtime place rulestribal council decisions
Related word relations
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More general
11 entriesMore specific
5 entriesCollocations
6 entriescity ordinancelocal ordinancenoise ordinancestate ordinancetraffic ordinancezoning ordinance
Inflections
1 entriesTranslations
32 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- декрет noun (edict, decree, order)
- указ noun (edict, decree, order)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 條令 /条令 noun (edict, decree, order)
- 條例 /条例 noun (edict, decree, order)
- 法令 noun (edict, decree, order)
Finnish
2 entries- käsky noun (edict, decree, order)
- määräys noun (edict, decree, order)
French
1 entries- décret noun (edict, decree, order)
German
4 entries- Anordnung noun (edict, decree, order)
- Dekret noun (edict, decree, order)
- Edikt noun (edict, decree, order)
- Erlass noun (edict, decree, order)
Hungarian
1 entries- rendelet noun (edict, decree, order)
Indonesian
1 entries- ordonansi noun (edict, decree, order)
Irish
1 entries- reacht noun (edict, decree, order)
Japanese
2 entries- 条令 noun (edict, decree, order)
- 条例 noun (edict, decree, order)
Kazakh
1 entries- жарлық noun (edict, decree, order)
Korean
2 entries- 법령 noun (edict, decree, order)
- 조례 noun (edict, decree, order)
Latin
1 entries- ordinatio noun (edict, decree, order)
Macedonian
2 entries- декре́т noun (edict, decree, order)
- у́каз noun (edict, decree, order)
Maltese
1 entries- ordinanza noun (edict, decree, order)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- forordning noun (edict, decree, order)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- forordning noun (edict, decree, order)
Polish
1 entries- ordynacja noun (edict, decree, order)
Russian
1 entries- ордона́нс noun (edict, decree, order)
Swedish
1 entries- förordning noun (edict, decree, order)
Vietnamese
1 entries- điều lệ noun (edict, decree, order)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The attempts to overturn the ordinance still need to be passed by Congress.
Source: tatoeba (10677144)
The new ordinance has been repealed.
Source: tatoeba (12225046)
From today on this ordinance is history.
Source: tatoeba (12225049)
Showing 4 of 12 available sentences.