enforceable
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- adjective
- /ɪnˈfɔrsəbl/
- Specialized
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exigible
- Compared with criminal law, civil regulations may be more broadly enforceable against nonmembers.
- enforceable contract
- legally enforceable
- enforceable agreement
Negative rights are enforceable under the rule of law.
- Negative rights are enforceable under the rule of law.
- And for norms to have meaning they need to be enforceable and violators held to account.
- Should the International Bill of Rights remain a statement of principles or also impose enforceable obligations on nations?
- Gratuitous promises, AKA gifts are not enforceable.
- When you agree to pay people severance if you fire them and then you say, no, I'm not paying you, that's an enforceable contract.
- The appeal to human rights in this case merely reinforced the lack of enforceable right in the civic national context.
- He defends, in other contexts, the right to have an enforceable blackmail contract.
- We've COVID cases on how to form an enforceable promise.
- Maybe we won't join the EU, but that's that and make that enforceable in some way.
Examples
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A contract was a restricted but legally enforceable agreement between two or more people.
Academic text (1998) -
The new regulations provide an enforceable framework for environmental protection.
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Negative rights are enforceable under the rule of law.
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That is not enforceable in the United States.
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All right, you got a contract, an enforceable one.
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Otherwise, a development agreement is a valid and enforceable contract.
Academic text (2001) -
I mean, it's not even legally enforceable.
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Is the specific provision enforceable by a legal entity other than the board of health?
Academic text (1993) -
Decisions by either body are enforceable throughout the twelve EC member states and seven EFTA countries.
Academic text (1994) -
When you agree to pay people severance if you fire them and then you say, no, I'm not paying you, that's an enforceable contract.
Synonyms
Required by law and able to be enforced
Antonyms
How Enforceable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Enforceable comes from the parts en-, force, and -able. The familiar word force means 'power' or 'strength', en- suggests 'put into', and -able means 'can be', so enforceable is 'can be made to happen by power or law', which is why it describes a law, rule, or contract that authorities can carry out.