Usually means: Implementation of laws and regulations.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Enforcement:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. enforcement: Merriam-Webster
  2. enforcement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. enforcement: Collins English Dictionary
  4. enforcement: Vocabulary.com
  5. Enforcement, enforcement: Wordnik
  6. enforcement: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. enforcement: Wiktionary
  8. enforcement: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. enforcement: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. enforcement: Dictionary.com
  11. enforcement: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Enforcement (disambiguation), Enforcement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Enforcement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. enforcement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. enforcement: Rhymezone
  16. Enforcement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. enforcement: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. enforcement: FreeDictionary.org
  19. enforcement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. enforcement: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. enforcement: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. enforcement: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. enforcement: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (enforcement)

▸ noun:  The act of enforcing; compulsion.
▸ noun:  A giving force to; a putting in execution.
▸ noun:  That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.

Similar:
policing, compliance, enforcer, deputization, regulation, surveillance, implementation, nonenforcement, protection, prosecution, more...

Opposite:
neglect, disregard, omission, noncompliance, avoidance

Types:
self-enforcement, coercive compliance, command-and-control, more...

Phrases:
law enforcement, code enforcement, Peace enforcement, criminal enforcement, Immigration Enforcement, more...

Adjectives:
strict, effective, local, legal, rigid, antitrust, vigorous, federal, judicial, lax, rigorous

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Similar:
policing, compliance, enforcer, deputization, regulation, surveillance, implementation, nonenforcement, protection, prosecution, more...

Opposite:
neglect, disregard, omission, noncompliance, avoidance

Types:
self-enforcement, coercive compliance, command-and-control, more...

Phrases:
law enforcement, code enforcement, Peace enforcement, criminal enforcement, Immigration Enforcement, Drug Enforcement Administration, Law enforcement agency, drug enforcement agency, more...

Adjectives:
strict, effective, local, legal, rigid, antitrust, vigorous, federal, judicial, lax, rigorous

Colors:
    blue,     black,     white,     gray,     dark green, more...



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