Enforcement Meaning
/ɪnˈfɔːsm(ə)nt/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of enforcing; compulsion.
nounA giving force to; a putting in execution.
Sentence Examples
They say everything's bigger in Texas, and that includes absurdity in law enforcement.
I'm in law enforcement.
Dan told two law enforcement agencies two different accounts.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of the new regulations begins next month in our office.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Strict ____ of speed limits has reduced the number of road accidents.
Word Origin & History
From Old French enforcement, see enforce + -ment.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[M]en lyued ſimplye and innocentlye without inforcement of lawes, without quarellinge Judges and libelles, contente onely to ſatiſfie nature, without further vexation for knowledge of thinges to come."
— 1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria [i.e., Peter Martyr d’Anghiera], “The Seconde Booke of the Fyrste Decade to Ascanius Phorcia [i.e., Ascanio Sforza], Vicounte Cardinall. &c.”, in Rycharde Eden [i.e., Richard Eden], transl., The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, […], London: […] [Rycharde Jug for] Guilhelmi Powell, →OCLC, 1st decade, folio 8, recto:
"And as congressional Republicans were passing a very unpopular Trump agenda bill last month, Vice President JD Vance argued that its historic expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and new immigration enforcement provisions were so important that “everything else” was “immaterial.”"
— 2025 July 13, Aaron Blake, “Trump’s mass deportation is backfiring”, in CNN, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2025:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of the new regulations begins next month in our office.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Strict ____ of speed limits has reduced the number of road accidents.