enforcement

[ en-fawrs-muhnt, -fohrs- ]

noun

1. the act or process of enforcing.
2. something that enforces.

Other Words From

• nonen·forcement noun
• preen·forcement noun
• proen·forcement adjective
• super·en·forcement noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of enforcement¹

1425–75; late Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French. See enforce, -ment

Example Sentences

One recent study found that community policing does help improve people’s perception of law enforcement, but there’s no way to guarantee that officers have positive interactions when they go out into the community.

From Vox

If someone is seeking to inject 100,000 fraudulent ballots into the state after voting ends, that would be straightforward to detect — by, say, law enforcement.

From Washington Post

Funding for the initiative has come largely from law enforcement groups and major grocery store chains.

From Voice of San Diego

Several guards “forcibly” kissed her, and at least one touched her intimate parts, often as she was walking back from the medical unit to her barrack, according to her complaint filed with law enforcement agencies.

From ProPublica

Survey data from GatherUp, however, reflect that consumers want mask enforcement are more likely to engage with merchants and visit stores that communicate and offer these safeguards.

From Search Engine Land

A policewoman was shot dead this morning while law enforcement searched for the Charlie Lebdo killers.

From The Daily Beast

You see, there is another Mexico, one that is not so appealing to business but well known to law enforcement.

From The Daily Beast

They prevailed last August, obtaining—follow me here—an injunction prohibiting the enforcement of those provisions.

From The Daily Beast

Law-enforcement agencies at all levels of government provide a valuable and often thankless public service in their communities.

From The Daily Beast

He has contributed to a false picture of law enforcement based on isolated injustices.

From The Daily Beast

It had a fortification such as became usual in later bridges for defence or for the enforcement of tolls.

From Project Gutenberg

The Board of Trade insisted upon the rigorous enforcement of the navigation act.

From Project Gutenberg

Having but one man—the responsible manager—to deal with, protective legislation and its enforcement would be a very simple matter.

From Project Gutenberg

And yet to the moderately philosophic observer the making of the law and its enforcement belong to the same process.

From Project Gutenberg

The National Forest force is seeking merely to obtain a strict enforcement of existing laws.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• administration
• application
• imposition
• prosecution