1. Publicly issue or announce a law or regulation through the authority responsible for it.
2. Make a doctrine, idea or position widely known through public communication.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- promulgate regulations
- promulgate a decree
On the page
The ministry promulgated the regulations only after the consultation record had been published.
A draft circulating among advisers had not yet been promulgated as law.
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Word forms
- Base
- promulgate
- Past tense
- promulgated
- Past participle
- promulgated
- Present participle
- promulgating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- promulgate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are promulgating
- Present perfect
- have/has promulgated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been promulgating
- Past
- promulgated
- Past continuous
- was/were promulgating
- Past perfect
- had promulgated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been promulgating
- Future
- will promulgate
- Future continuous
- will be promulgating
- Future perfect
- will have promulgated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been promulgating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: promulgate; promulgates; promulgated; promulgated; promulgating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation, qualification. Disciplines: general academic writing. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: promulgates.
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