How to pronounce “law”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
• A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
• (more generally) A rule, such as:
• The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
• (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
• The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
• Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
• Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
• (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
• (aviation) A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
• (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
• (law, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
• [Verb]
• (obsolete) To work as a lawyer; to practice law.
• (ambitransitive, chiefly dialectal) To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
• (nonstandard) To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.
• (informal) To enforce the law.
• To subject to legal restrictions.

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