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enforcements

enforcements is the plural of enforcement.

Meaning of enforcement

Noun

enforcement (usually uncountable, plural enforcements)

  1. (usually) The act of enforcing; compulsion.
    • [M]en lyued ſimplye and innocentlye without inforcement of lawes, without quarellinge Judges and libelles, contente onely to ſatiſfie nature, without further vexation for knowledge of thinges to come.1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria [i.e., Peter Martyr d’Anghiera], “The Seconde Booke of the Fyrste Decade to Ascanius Phorcia [i.e., Ascanio Sforza], Vicounte Cardinall. &c.”, in Rycharde Eden [i.e....
  2. (usually) A giving force to; a putting in execution.
  3. (usually) That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.

Questions about enforcements

What is enforcements the plural of?
Enforcements is the plural of enforcement.

Words near enforcements in the dictionary

  1. enforcement
  2. enforcement agent
  3. enforcement agents
  4. enforcement authorities
  5. enforcement authority
  6. enforcements
  7. enforcer
  8. enforcers
  9. enforces
  10. enforcest
  11. enforceth

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