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enforcement

enforcement

912 3.9
Making people obey a law or rule
  • noun
  • /ɪnˈfɔːrsmənt/
translation icon : aplicación
  • Strict enforcement of the speed limit will help reduce traffic accidents.
  • law enforcement
  • enforcement officer
  • policy enforcement

We need new norms and rules and enforcement mechanisms.

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Examples

  • We need new norms and rules and enforcement mechanisms.

  • The process often involves the courts, law enforcement, medical providers, schools, families, and children.

    Academic text (2011)
  • And this is what law enforcement does, all right?

  • Well, you need some sort of enforcement power.

  • Once and for all, the top men in law enforcement are united.

  • You need a rule of law, a good judicial system, enforcement of contracts.

  • We have contacts in law enforcement.

  • The key difference is in the enforcement of the aforementioned rules.

  • For all its influence in American law enforcement, the FBI was a comparatively small organization.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Sungai Wain's success is clearly due to the carrot-and-stick approach: tough enforcement coupled with education and development programs.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

law enforcement
vsenforcement
660 3.2

The work police do to stop crime, find criminals, and make people obey the law

covers making people follow any rule or obligation, not only criminal law

Antonyms

55 4.2

Refusing to obey rules or people in charge

Compounds

660 3.2

The work police do to stop crime, find criminals, and make people obey the law

A group that makes sure people follow rules and stops crime and finds who did it

A United States government agency that enforces laws about illegal drugs

A United States agency that enforces laws about illegal drugs and arrests people who sell them

An agency of the European Union that helps police in member countries work together to fight serious crime

A United States government school that trains officers from federal law enforcement agencies

A part of the US government that works to stop money laundering and other crimes with money

Money spent to check that people follow a contract and to act if they break it

How Strict

to ban
  • Formal
484 1.4
crackdown
  • Literature
73 5.6
clampdown
3 6.6
enforcement
912 3.9
restriction
340 3.0
warning
1.0

Surface Forms

enforcement singular
enforcements plural

Morphology

enforcement = enforce (transparent) = en + force + ment

The noun is a regular nominalization of the verb 'enforce' with '-ment', yielding 'the act or process of enforcing'.

Etymology

The word enforcement comes from the parts en- meaning 'in' or 'into' and force meaning 'strength' or 'power', the same 'force' you know in English. So enforcement is about using power or rules to make people obey a law or order.