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in force

in force prepositional phrase: with a substantial number of men capable of exerting force or of making a show of force.

Prepositional phrase

  1. With a substantial number of men capable of exerting force or of making a show of force.
    • Patrick was a cabbie & a dispatcher at Yellow Cab & when we got to the church where the [funeral] services were being held, the cabbies came out in force for Pat & there were at least 30 cabs pulling into the church parking lot.1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
    • The police arrived in force at dawn to raid the drug lab.
  2. With a substantial display of resources.
    • They made the presentation in force to try to impress the client.
  3. In effect; applicable.
    • Some of the old laws against treason are no longer in force.
    Synonyms:
    effective

in force meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

in force in Tamil

நடைமுறையில் அமலில்

in force in Urdu

رائج

in force in Bengali

in force, in position, intact
বজায় bojaẏ

in force in Malayalam

in operation, effective, operative
പ്രാബല്യത്തിലുള്ള, നിലവിലുള്ള, ഫലത്തിലുള്ള, നടപ്പിലുള്ള, പ്രയോഗക്ഷമം, പ്രാവർത്തികമായ
in full strength, in great numbers, in hordes
കൂട്ടത്തോടെ, കിളയോടെ, വലിയസംഘമായി, സംഘംചേർന്ന്, നല്ല സംഖ്യാബലത്തോടുകൂടി
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in force in Kannada
ಜಾರಿಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ

Synonyms of in force

Questions about in force

What does in force mean?
In force means with a substantial number of men capable of exerting force or of making a show of force.
What is in force in Tamil?
In force in Tamil is நடைமுறையில் அமலில். See In force meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is in force?
In force is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in force in the dictionary

  1. in for a penny
  2. in for a penny, in for a pound
  3. in for an inch, in for a mile
  4. in for it
  5. in for the kill
  6. in force
  7. in form
  8. in forma pauperis
  9. in foro conscientiae
  10. in foro conscientiæ
  11. in freefall

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in force (page history and authors); in force (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); in force (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); বজায় (Bengali) (page history and authors); in force (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); in force (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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