Usually means: Imposes rules or laws authoritatively.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word enforces:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. enforces: Merriam-Webster
  2. enforces: Collins English Dictionary
  3. enforces: Vocabulary.com
  4. Enforces, enforces: Wordnik
  5. enforces: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. enforces: Wiktionary
  7. enforces: Dictionary.com
  8. enforces: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. enforces: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. enforces: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. enforces: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enforces: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See enforce as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (enforce)

verb:  To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
verb:  To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To intensify, make stronger, add force to.
verb:  (obsolete, reflexive) To exert oneself, to try hard.
verb:  (obsolete) To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force.
verb:  (obsolete) To make or gain by force; to force.
verb:  (obsolete) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
verb:  (obsolete) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to energize.
verb:  (obsolete) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
verb:  (obsolete) To prove; to evince.
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