Collocations for "law"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "law" in context.
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law
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [public, government] laws
- a [federal, local, state] law
- an [archaic, outdated] law
- is case law [for, about]
- make new case law
- part of international law
- practices [criminal, family] law
- don't break the law
- is enforcing the law
- turn a bill into a law
- the law has been [passed, approved]
- the law [stipulates, states, prevents]
- according to the law
- is the law of the land
- [abide by, get around] the laws
- [should, have to] follow the laws
- is in trouble with the law
- (driving without a seatbelt) is against the law
- it is against the law to [smoke in these premises]
- [provided that, so long as] it is within the law
- there's no law against it!
- law and order
- is studying Law (at)
- a [grey area, loophole] in the law
- the full force of the law
- a law to [protect, provide, allow]
- the laws of [physics, nature, God, motion]
- the law of [attraction, diminishing returns]
- the [theory, philosophy] of natural law
- UK: is a law unto herself
- you have to - it's the law!
- it's Murphy's Law
- UK: vulgar, slang: it's sod's law (that)
- law enforcement [policies, agencies]
- works [for, at] a law firm
- went to law school
- is a [criminal, family] law attorney
'law' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
January
- abide
- accordance
- accountable
- act
- agency
- amenable
- amendment
- appliance
- applicable
- apply
- approve
- arm
- assign
- associate
- background
- barrister
- belief
- bill
- bind
- blatant
- breach
- break
- broadcast
- brother
- brother-in-law
- brush
- career
- cause
- chamber
- change
- child
- citizen
- clear
- clerk
- collar
- compliant
- comply
- confine
- conservative
- constrain
- constrained
- construct
- contempt
- controversial
- convict
- copyright
- counsel
- court
- criminal