Enforcement
[en'fɔːsm(ə)nt] or [ɪn'forsmənt]
Definition
(noun.) the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to.
Checked by Judith--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of enforcing; compulsion.
(n.) A giving force to; a putting in execution.
(n.) That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Inculcation.[2]. Sanction.[3]. Execution, putting in force.[4]. Constraint, compulsion.
Typist: Miranda
Examples
- Tom Johnson saw this as Mayor of Cleveland; he knew that strict law enforcement against saloons, brothels, and gambling houses would not stop vice, but would corrupt the police. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The satisfaction of these needs will require a world control of very considerable authority and powers of enforcement. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It felt the need of re-enforcement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But all laws which depend for their enforcement upon informers and fines, become inert from the odiousness of the machinery. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Emanuel held most dear and sacred, commanding the enforcement of that new system whose frost had pierced to the marrow of my bones. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Up there when there had been the first necessity for the enforcement of discipline he had approved and understood it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They've got re-enforcements, however. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- By that time, Crispin and his re-enforcements will have arrived, so we will soon be able to drive them back. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Suppose I go to Syra, and get the Eparch there to send you re-enforcements? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Checker: Sylvia