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enforcer

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Enforcer (also known informally as "the big key" ) is the term given to a specially designed manual battering ram currently used by British Police forces to aid in gaining entry to premises . It is manufactured and sold by a company called Sigma Security ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who enforces. 2 The member of a group, especially of a gang, charged with keeping dissident members obedient. 3 (context ice hockey English) A player tasked with physically intimidate or confronting the opposition.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enforcer \En*for"cer\, n. One who enforces.

Usage examples of enforcer.

Its critics would argue that intimidator, enforcer, coercer, tyrant are more apt.

Glamdrul Feynt was on his way to keep a very important, and secret, appointment with Deputy Enforcer Bormas Tyle, and with Shavian Bossit, Lord Maintainer of the Household.

A machete was the weapon of choice with a number of gangland enforcers.

DiGeorge smiled wryly, thinking of Screwy Looey Pena as his Chief Enforcer.

I was standing on my front porch again, watching the people dance in the streets and laugh at the puppetry, when Bilby and two of his enforcers climbed the stairs.

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Almost all of them knew where he was but kept their peace, hating Enforcers, knowing, also, no reward was big enough to prevent shishi vengeance, or Floating World disgust, at a betrayal.

Which made him technically a strig, beyond the protection of strigoi law and technically lawful prey for the Enforcer of the City to take at her leisure.

Without Bulaybub to persuade the unaffiliated tribes to accept him as supreme leader, he would need a general, a war chief, an enforcer at the least.

The bloodiest era of the cocaine cowboys seems to be over, and flamboyant enforcers are less in demand.

You look at, say, San Diego, and all the enforcers there are gangbangers, little sixteen-year-olds who see hundreds of thousands in cash and coke pass through their hands every week.

Before the exposed Enforcer could speak a word, Laina jammed a hisser into his face.

To her a group of guys suddenly taking over or renting a warehouse and not bringing in a lot of stuff to store screamed suspicion, but she was a fellow lawbreaker, not an enforcer.

Religious and educational institutions, like Cydonia and the Mormonite Jesuits, had small police troops, or hired an enforcer corp.

The matriarchs would not send enough enforcers after him to allow them the luxury of a multipronged attack.