enforcement

CEFRC1

/ɪnˈfɔːsm(ə)nt/

noun

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Dan told two law enforcement agencies two different accounts.
They say everything's bigger in Texas, and that includes absurdity in law enforcement.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.
The act of enforcing; compulsion.

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I'm in law enforcement.
[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.

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[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 Ry...
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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From Old French enforcement, see enforce + -ment.