enforce
To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
Example
“The police are there to enforce the law.”
Other meanings
To apply a rule or enforcement action to a person or user account.
“This will give us the tools we need to enforce accounts like these.”
To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.
“The victim was able to enforce his evidence against the alleged perpetrator.”
Related words
- enforcedly
- nonenforced
- unenforced
- enforceability
- enforceable
- enforcive
- misenforce
- reenforce
- underenforce
- enforcingly
- nonenforcing
- enforcer
Word history
From Latin "infortiāre".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “enforce” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.