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- pronunciation:
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- features:
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verb |
| inflections: |
enforces, enforcing, enforced |
| definition: |
If the police enforce a law, they make people obey the law. They don't let them break it. In a school, it is the principal and the teachers who enforce the school rules.
The government makes the laws, and the police enforce them.There is a law against fishing in this area, but no one seems to be enforcing it because there are always people fishing here. |
| derivations: |
enforceable (adj.), enforceability (n.), enforcer (n.) |
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