Enforcement
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɪnˈfɔːsm(ə)nt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Enforcement is a noun meaning The act of enforcing; compulsion.
Meaning
The act of enforcing; compulsion.
More Meanings
- A giving force to; a putting in execution.
- That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.
Example Sentences
[M]en lyued ſimplye and innocentlye without inforcement of lawes, without quarellinge Judges and libelles, contente onely to ſatiſfie nature, without further vexation for knowledge of thinges to come.
And as congressional Republicans were passing a very unpopular Trump agenda bill last month, Vice President JD Vance argued that its historic expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and new immigration enforcement provisions were so important that “everything else” was “immaterial.”
Word Forms
- enforcements
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include coercion, coercive, imposition, forced, duress, crackdown.
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