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enactor

enactor

7.3
A person or group that puts laws and policies into action
  • noun
  • /ɪˈnæktər/
  • Formal
translation icon : promulgador
  • To see this, it is necessary to cast the vocabulary of the memorial space of absence not as decorated, but as performative, and visitors to it as enactors of the physical postures of melancholy.

Examples

  • In various registers of symbolic action, from the use of dialect to the celebration of festivals, the members of the Bopparder neighborhoods are the embodiment and the enactors of what counts as local tradition.

    Academic text (1993)
  • First and foremost, it's too easy to to either blame our clients or blame that most of the writers and the enactors in the early days were men.

  • "Participating in this show restored my faith in theater as an enactor of change," she says.

    Blog text (15)
  • The enactors of Goals 2000 stated two basic premises: that students must use their minds well and that teachers need the skills for preparing all students.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Anderson's The First Thanksgiving (1984) uses black and white photographs of historical enactors at Plimouth Plantation to illustrate her story.

    Academic text (1991)
  • On the contrary, when the Long Parliament proceeded to usurp the executive, they impaired the popular liberties which they seemed to be advancing; for the security of those liberties depends on the separation of the executive and legislative powers, or on the enactors being subjects, not executors of the laws.

    Blog text (3)
  • The legend of a recovery from such loss is formulated by Pater in the earliest and most providential image found in his writings: the crystal character who in his earliest essay, "Diaphaneite," emerges fully idealized as both a symbol and an enactor of the "regeneration of the world."

    Academic text (2000)
  • The enactor of the new law ensured that all regulations were properly implemented.

  • As an enactor of policy changes, she played a crucial role in improving workplace safety.

  • The enactors of the community initiative were dedicated individuals working to improve local education.

Synonyms

enforcer
vsenactor
10 4.3

A person who makes sure people follow rules or laws

also puts measures into effect, not just ensuring obedience
implementer
vsenactor
1 4.6

A person or group who puts plans and ideas into action

also exercises authority to enforce laws or rules
implementor
vsenactor
  • US
1 5.5

A person or team that puts a plan into action

includes enforcing or ensuring obedience to those measures
promulgator
vsenactor
  • Formal
1 8.5

A person who officially announces and starts a new law or rule

carries out or enforces the law after formal declaration
ordinator
vsenactor
  • Formal
9.5

A person or group that makes rules for others

focuses on implementing and sometimes enforcing policies in practice

Antonyms

19 5.1

A person who breaks a law or other rule

How Powerful

powerbroker
2 7.9
authority
889 3.1
enforcer
10 4.3
enactor
  • Formal
7.3
implementer
1 4.6

Surface Forms

enactor singular
enactors plural

Morphology

enactor = enact (transparent) = enact + or

Clear agentive nominalization: the productive suffix '-or' is added to the verb 'enact' to mean 'one who enacts'.

Etymology

The word enactor comes from the verb enact, which means 'to make into law' or 'to put into action', plus the ending -or, which means 'one who does', as in actor. So an enactor is someone or something that puts laws, rules, or policies into effect.