bylaw

bylaw is a 5-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government.
2. noun. A law that is less important than a general law or constitutional provision, and subsidiary to it; a rule relating to a matter of detail; as, civic societies often adopt a constitution and by-laws for the government of their members. In this sense the word has probably been influenced by by, meaning secondary or aside.
3. noun. a rule adopted by an organization in order to regulate its own affairs and the behavior of its members

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bylaw:

bawly

Common word forms

bylaws

Words from these letters

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