Usually means: Local law or regulation enacted.
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  1. ordinance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ordinance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ordinance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ordinance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ordinance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ordinance, ordinance: Wordnik
  7. ordinance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ordinance: Wiktionary
  9. ordinance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ordinance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ordinance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ordinance: Dictionary.com
  13. ordinance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ordinance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ordinance (Belgium), Ordinance (Christian), Ordinance (Christianity), Ordinance (India), Ordinance (Latter Day Saints), Ordinance (Mormonism), Ordinance (canon law), Ordinance (disambiguation), Ordinance (university), Ordinance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ordinance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ordinance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ordinance: Rhymezone
  19. Ordinance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ordinance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ordinance: Free Dictionary
  22. ordinance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ordinance: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. ordinance: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. ordinance: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. ordinance: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  11. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  12. Ordinance (disambiguation), ordinance: Legal dictionary
  13. ordinance: Financial dictionary
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ordinance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (US) A local law, passed by e.g. a city.
noun:  An edict or decree, authoritative order.
noun:  (England) Prior to the Third English Civil War, a decree of Parliament.
noun:  (UK, pre-1992 universities, Commonwealth) Detailed legislation that translates the broad principles of the university's charter and statutes into practical effect.
noun:  (Hong Kong) A law enacted by the Hong Kong Legislative Council.
noun:  (India, Pakistan) A temporary legislation promulgated by the president on the recommendation of the cabinet.
noun:  A religious practice or ritual prescribed by a church.
noun:  (proscribed) Alternative form of ordnance (“military equipment, especially artillery”). [Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.]

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