asetus.
decree; executive order (regulation that is subordinate to legislative statutes, specifies them or lays down how they are actually implemented)
Meaning & usage
decree; executive order (regulation that is subordinate to legislative statutes, specifies them or lays down how they are actually implemented)
Valtioneuvosto antoi asetuksen perusopetuksen tavoitteista ja tuntijaosta.
Suomessa hallitus voi antaa asetuksia itsenäisesti, mutta lait tulevat voimaan vain eduskunnan enemmistön tuella.
regulation (self-effecting legislative act, which requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law)
setting, (in the plural) settings, configuration
ordinance
synonym of asettaminen (“placing, setting”)
Where this word comes from
asettaa (“to place, set”) + -us. Originally “placing, setting”; the legal sense “decree” from the Middle Ages, probably as a semantic loan from another language (compare German Gesetz from setzen), perhaps a semantic loan from Middle Low German gesette.
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