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From Old French enforcement, see enforce-ment.

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enforcement (usually uncountable, plural enforcements)

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

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  1. ^ enforcement”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
  2. ^ enforcement”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  3. ^ enforcement”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  4. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.