law enforcement
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3.2
- noun
- /lɔː ɛnˈfɔːrsmənt/
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aplicación de la ley
- Law enforcement agencies play a crucial role in maintaining public safety and addressing crime.
- law enforcement officer
- law enforcement officials
- a law enforcement agency
I'm a huge supporter of law enforcement from the bottom to the top.
- I'm a huge supporter of law enforcement from the bottom to the top.
- And a nation that does not back its war fighters and law enforcement that's dangerous.
- And and that's the end of your law enforcement career, long law enforcement career.
- Many people in the military and law enforcement are hyper vigilant.
- Well, financial fraud is dealt with by law enforcement in most countries.
- So I've done training films for law enforcement.
- You are probably the most articulate and passionate law enforcement advocate I've ever met.
- Do you think that is wrong with law enforcement today?
- And I've always kind of had that connection to, to law enforcement.
- And so that's totally changed law enforcement and that's why serial killers have vanished.
- Yeah, from my my colleagues in in law enforcement that I understand is First off, backup.
- So one of those forces is the police or law enforcement.
- I mean, the Dutch are like in truly like very aggressive in their law enforcement's operations like this.
- I come from a family of law enforcement.
- I said you guys are protesting the wrong thing. Said you're protesting law enforcement.
Examples
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You embarrassed me in front of the highest-ranking law enforcement official in the country.
Fiction book (1996) -
The process often involves the courts, law enforcement, medical providers, schools, families, and children.
Academic text (2011) -
Without law enforcement, we got no order.
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Once and for all, the top men in law enforcement are united.
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Private information will be disclosed to law enforcement authorities only as required by law.
Academic text (1999) -
Well, financial fraud is dealt with by law enforcement in most countries.
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Law enforcement is very dangerous work, isn't it?
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The evolution in terrorist financing is particularly challenging for law enforcement and intelligence to follow.
Academic text (2008) -
For all its influence in American law enforcement, the FBI was a comparatively small organization.
Fiction book (1996) -
Critics also question the wisdom of allowing law enforcement to demand an organization's records without judicial oversight.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
912
3.9
Making people obey a law or rule
66
3.0
Police investigate crimes and enforce the law
Antonyms
How Active
- Literature
73
5.6
660
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the activity of ensuring that people obey the law' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'law' (rules/statutes) with 'enforcement' (the process of ensuring adherence). This noun-noun composition follows a common and regular semantic pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun law enforcement comes from the simple idea of the words law and enforcement, meaning putting force behind rules. Imagine town guards using their power to make people follow the rules; that picture explains why law enforcement means 'making people obey the law' today.