enforcement

enforce | American Dictionary

enforce
verb[ T ]
us/ɪnˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrs/
to cause a law or rule to be obeyed:
We need to enforce the traffic laws.

enforcement

noun[ U ]us/ɪnˈfɔrs·mənt, -ˈfoʊr-/
law enforcement

enforce | Business English

enforce
verb[ T ]
uk /ɪnˈfɔːs/ us /-ˈfɔːrs/
LAW
to make sure that people obey something such as a law or rule:
Regulations do not mean anything unless they are enforced.
The bar had a lawsuit filed against it for not enforcing the smoking ban.
to force somebody to do something, or to make sure that something happens:
Ministers are preparing to enforce a minimum price for beer.
Instead of making enforced redundancies, the company will offer employees other alternatives, such as early retirement.

Examples of enforce

enforce
The agreement was too indefinite to be enforced - how long was the loan supposed to run?
To enforce incentives to plant trees, afforestation responsibility was decentralized to local leaders in 1984.
Because segmentalist behavior is voluntary, no external agency is necessary to enforce it.
Each of the models described above is formulated to enforce a hypothesized constraint on the counts in the contingency table.
Acknowledging this right encourages physicians to actively enforce their own ethical standards.
Stringently enforced parameters on intellectual property are encoded into new formats and technologies, perpetuating the individuating characteristics of media marketing wherever possible.
They were either elected or selected by the water users to supervise all activities concerning irrigation and to enforce rules.
To implement comprehensive economic and social policies, the state must levy standardised taxes, keep systematic administrative records, and enforce uniform rules across its territory.
So why do they not always club together and enforce tax policies that redistribute riches to themselves?
For a static checking tool used to enforce a confidentiality policy, trustworthiness depends on soundness of the rules and correctness of their implementation.
Minimum standards of quality required for food - especially meat and milk - and living quarters were established and enforced by means of regular inspections.
Section 3 deals with system-level trust where we illustrate different mechanisms that enforce certain properties of the interaction and hence the trustworthiness of agents involved.
They have to confess that awareness of language is an entirely natural development, which should be monitored by a teacher but not enforced.
Usually, these strategies are chosen and enforced by high-level public entities and therefore many institutions are obliged to support them.
The social planner enforces a monetary policy that guarantees expected inflation to be zero.
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