ENFORCEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enforcement mean? 

• ENFORCEMENT (noun)
  The noun ENFORCEMENT has 1 sense:

1. the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to

  Familiarity information: ENFORCEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENFORCEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("enforcement" is a kind of...):

social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enforcement"):

coercion (the act of compelling by force of authority)

carrying out; execution; implementation (the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order)

imposition; infliction (the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo))

law enforcement (ensuring obedience to the laws)

Derivation:

enforce (ensure observance of laws and rules)

enforce (compel to behave in a certain way)

 Context examples 

Regulation and enforcement of rules on the trade of native plants and meat need to improve.

(Deadly fungal disease ‘caused greatest biodiversity loss ever recorded’, SciDev.Net)

As I passed over he moved back, and his exclamation of horror, "Gott in Himmel!" needed no enforcement from his agonised face.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Elinor, for her sister's sake, could not press the subject farther, and she hoped it was not required of her for Willoughby's; since, though Marianne might lose much, he could gain very little by the enforcement of the real truth.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The study comes at a time when facial analysis technologies — which use hidden cameras to assess and characterize certain features about an individual — are becoming increasingly prevalent, embedded in everything from smartphone dating apps and digital kiosks at malls to airport security and law enforcement surveillance systems.

(Facial recognition software has a gender problem, National Science Foundation)