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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enforcement
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
law enforcement agent
law enforcement
▪ law enforcement agencies
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
effective
▪ Arguments of this kind can provide effective defences to enforcement proceedings.
federal
▪ Law enforcement officials. Federal law enforcement.
▪ The bill was blocked last year by conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats concerned about over-zealous federal law enforcement.
▪ A federal law enforcement official said prosecutions seldom are initiated unless the eavesdropper deliberately has used a monitored conversation for other purposes.
▪ For years, federal law enforcement officials were reluctant to penetrate the movement.
▪ South Carolina called out twelve thousand volunteers to resist federal law enforcement.
▪ The budgets for federal law enforcement and tax collection would both be down more than 10 percent in real terms by 2002.
▪ That raises obvious questions about the priorities of federal drug enforcement agents and prosecutors.
▪ Seven senior federal law enforcement officers from Baja California have been slain in the past year.
legal
▪ We are looking for a sufficient cause or reason for the legal enforcement of a promise.
▪ Standards which can not be attained by negotiation or legal enforcement may at least be achieved if made less demanding.
local
▪ The school security specialists also want local law enforcement officials and school administrators to improve their cooperation to stem the violence.
▪ Permits to carry concealed handguns are hard to come by, issued only at the discretion of local law enforcement officials.
senior
▪ But a senior law enforcement source said Monday the residue is an adhesive used to bind plastic parts in airplanes.
▪ But senior law enforcement sources said Monday that the residue is glue, not missile fuel.
▪ Seven senior federal law enforcement officers from Baja California have been slain in the past year.
strict
▪ And an extended payments schedule might well recover the debt more surely than strict enforcement - which might instead precipitate financial collapse.
▪ How strict or lenient enforcement agents conceive them to be may well affect their enforcement behaviour.
tough
▪ Governments - extending regulations to cover more corporate activities either through new laws or tougher enforcement of existing laws.
■ NOUN
action
▪ A number of the oligarchs have been subjected to intense and seemingly arbitrary law enforcement action in recent weeks.
▪ The agency began enforcement actions against 20 companies -- and vows to pursue, if necessary.
▪ A relator owes no duty to the public to initiate any law enforcement action.
▪ Many low income families may still face enforcement action through private bailiffs at the door, rather than less stringent repayment methods.
▪ Neighbours can not take enforcement action on their own behalf, but they can lobby the council.
▪ Planners have recommended enforcement action compelling the club to remove the wire with 12 months lee-way.
▪ The Peak Park Board can either take enforcement action or establish an effective management system.
▪ In that case, this House was concerned only with the position of the Crown in law enforcement actions.
agency
▪ Confiscated boats and planes could be used by law enforcement agencies and seized money used to train and better equip the forces.
▪ The controversy has led other law enforcement agencies to take another look at the chile pepper extract.
▪ In law enforcement agencies particularly, top officials have cleaned out their files and left nothing for an incoming administration.
▪ Petersburg Times, was loaned by companies seeking to market the technology to law enforcement agencies.
▪ City officials chose not to join other law enforcement agencies seeking a renewal of the exemption.
▪ The Home Office said that it had received representations from law enforcement agencies.
▪ Thousands of officers from 10 law enforcement agencies lined Pennsylvania Avenue.
agent
▪ Like other enforcement agents, the field man is gatekeeper to the apparatus of control.
▪ Law enforcement agents and reporters were standing within feet of the trash bin where the second blast occurred.
▪ How strict or lenient enforcement agents conceive them to be may well affect their enforcement behaviour.
▪ After the material was delivered, law enforcement agents obtained search warrants and arrested the customers.
▪ The enforcement agent in a compliance system has a wide variety of roles to fulfil.
▪ That raises obvious questions about the priorities of federal drug enforcement agents and prosecutors.
▪ In short, he becomes more credible as a negotiator and as an enforcement agent.
▪ Like other enforcement agents they adapt by employing protective strategies.
authority
▪ The lack of a moral mandate threatens the regulatory agency's legitimacy as an enforcement authority.
▪ If the hon. Member has more information about illegal services, he should pass it on to the proper enforcement authorities.
▪ He said law enforcement authorities had closed off a five-mile area around the crash site.
▪ They accused the law enforcement authorities of violating their civil rights by, among other things, fabricating evidence.
▪ Law enforcement authorities simply keep a record of a low-risk offender.
▪ Or you might decide to report the incident to law enforcement authorities.
drug
▪ That raises obvious questions about the priorities of federal drug enforcement agents and prosecutors.
effort
▪ He said the force was created to centralize law enforcement efforts in the south county area.
law
▪ The rest of the extract then examines how changes in the style of policing and law enforcement affect criminal statistics.
▪ The discoveries have residents, postal employees and law enforcement officials in Washington on edge.
▪ The decision in the Hoffmann-La Roche case is not about law enforcement actions in general.
▪ It is specifically about actions by the Crown under a statute providing a prescribed means of law enforcement.
▪ He said law enforcement authorities had closed off a five-mile area around the crash site.
▪ A law enforcement professional would know better than to keep the thing around.
notice
▪ You can appeal against an enforcement notice on a number of grounds.
▪ Development undertaken without permission is not an offence in itself; but ignoring an enforcement notice is.
▪ If the appeal is lost you will have to take the steps required in the enforcement notice.
▪ Fourth, there is a right of appeal against an enforcement notice to the secretary of state and the courts.
▪ Failure to observe that enforcement notice can result in a prosecution in the local magistrates' court.
▪ The existence or otherwise of an enforcement notice will be revealed by the local search result.
▪ Once an enforcement notice has been entered against a property as a local land charge it will not be removed.
▪ If you win, it will then be for them to serve an enforcement notice or injunction as appropriate.
officer
▪ I should be grateful if you would ask your enforcement officer to look into this matter.
▪ Yours is that you happen to be the chief law enforcement officer of this Commonwealth.
▪ The description might have more applicability if there were rights enforcement officers to aid unrepresented applicants.
▪ Rotating law enforcement officers is a textbook concept straight out of police administration 101.
▪ Law enforcement officers have increased powers to deal with or seize food they suspect is dangerous.
▪ In response, President Fillmore issued a proclamation asking citizens to cease interfering with law enforcement officers.
▪ But law enforcement officers are deliberate -- and frequent -- targets.
official
▪ The discoveries have residents, postal employees and law enforcement officials in Washington on edge.
▪ Some of the chiefs also urged improved information sharing between schools and law enforcement officials.
▪ Law enforcement officials consider it the most corrupt of six border crossings in Arizona.
▪ It was the first such public statement by any high-ranking law-enforcement official directly involved in the Ray case.
▪ Until last week, Kaczynski had neither been arrested nor involved in radical political activity, a law enforcement official said.
▪ Law enforcement officials in California said the men have put more than a million dollars worth of renovations into it.
peace
▪ In that regard, the United Nations surely has a peace enforcement role as well as a peace-keeping role.
▪ The research investigates the concepts of peacekeeping and peace enforcement as they might be applied to United Nations maritime operations.
procedure
▪ However, I state again that enforcement procedures offer plenty of opportunities for some one to pay their dues and so avoid imprisonment.
▪ Much of that expense is caused by the enforcement procedures.
▪ This is different from the general position in relation to planning permission where an offence arises only after the enforcement procedure has been invoked.
▪ Any work carried out after then becomes liable to enforcement procedures.
proceeding
▪ Arguments of this kind can provide effective defences to enforcement proceedings.
source
▪ Law enforcement sources say he is likely to get 10 to 15 years in prison.
▪ Kaczynski was disgusted with the widespread drug use and liberal politics at UC-Berkeley, a law enforcement source said.
▪ But a senior law enforcement source said Monday the residue is an adhesive used to bind plastic parts in airplanes.
▪ But senior law enforcement sources said Monday that the residue is glue, not missile fuel.
▪ Investigators may be able to recover fingerprints from the devices, which law enforcement sources said were rigged with straight pins.
■ VERB
help
▪ This development will help the enforcement of Community legislation already adopted.
▪ The information will help law enforcement authorities trace ownership of the weapon back to the original gun dealer.
involve
▪ Development control necessarily involves procedures for enforcement.
▪ Twenty-one of the thirty-one cases tried involved law enforcement officials.
provide
▪ The treaty is far reaching in scope but does not provide clear mechanisms for enforcement.
▪ The Pact did not provide any machinery for enforcement: it merely pledged the nations to outlaw war.
▪ Arguments of this kind can provide effective defences to enforcement proceedings.
require
▪ Crimes of violence do not negate law, they merely require its better enforcement.
▪ The Arizona initiative would seek to require tighter enforcement, he said.
seek
▪ Pete Wilson and advocates of the initiative sought court enforcement of the measure.
▪ The Arizona initiative would seek to require tighter enforcement, he said.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Implementation and enforcement can occasionally be patchy.
▪ Like other enforcement agents, the field man is gatekeeper to the apparatus of control.
▪ They should also be given and encouraged to use enforcement powers where necessary.
▪ Yet there were two main barriers to the exaction and enforcement of such concessions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enforcement

Enforcement \En*force"ment\, n. [Cf. OF. enforcement.]

  1. The act of enforcing; compulsion.

    He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them.
    --Sir W. Raleigh.

    Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her.
    --Shak.

  2. A giving force to; a putting in execution.

    Enforcement of strict military discipline.
    --Palfrey.

  3. That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.

    The rewards and punishment of another life, which the Almighty has established as the enforcements of his law.
    --Locke.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enforcement

late 15c., "constraint, compulsion," from Old French enforcement "strengthening, fortification; rape; compulsion, coercion;" from enforcier; see enforce + -ment. Meaning "compelling of obedience to a law, etc." is from 1680s.

Wiktionary
enforcement

n. 1 The act of enforce; compulsion. 2 A giving force to; a putting in execution. 3 That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.

WordNet
enforcement

n. the act of enforcing; insuring observance of or obedience to

Wikipedia
Enforcement

Enforcement is the processing of set schedules via dispatching to execution.

The latency of any type of human work force to escape under avert conditions from set demand for fulfilment with parameters of punctuality, performance and quality is compensated by procedures of enforcement, as e.g.

etc.

Enforcement (disambiguation)

Enforcement is attempt in management to achieve results as intended or planned.

Enforcement may also refer to:

  • Law enforcement
  • Coming into force in general

Usage examples of "enforcement".

One biker calls law enforcement agencies around the country and says he is a police officer riding undercover with an outlaw motorcycle gang.

The ancient had then used law enforcement to track them down, something Cade damn well should have foreseen.

The latter interpretation, however, does not state a limitation on the power of making treaties in the sense of international conventions, but rather a necessary procedure before certain conventions are cognizable by the courts in the enforcement of rights under them, while the former interpretation has been contradicted in practice from the outset.

Law enforcement investigators note that solution rates may be misleading and should be scrutinized closely, since some crimes reported as unsolved are, in fact, solved after the figures have been reported.

While studies explaining why certain individuals commit violent crimes may aid them in their search, law enforcement investigators must adapt study findings to suit their own particular needs.

The NCAVC collects and analyzes violent crime data and provides assistance to law enforcement agencies in their attempts to identify, locate, apprehend, prosecute, and incarcerate the persons responsible for these and other violent crimes and to develop new programs for the prevention of violent crime victimization.

The goal of VICAP is to provide all law enforcement agencies reporting similar pattern violent crimes with the information necessary to initiate a coordinated multiagency investigation which will lead to the expeditious identification and apprehension of the offender responsible for the crimes.

Thus in World War I the State of New York enacted a statute which, declaring that a public emergency existed, forbade the enforcement of covenants for the surrender of the possession of premises on the expiration of leases, and wholly deprived for a period owners of dwellings, including apartment and tenement houses, within the City of New York and contiguous counties of possessory remedies for the eviction from their premises of tenants in possession when the law took effect, providing the latter were able and willing to pay a reasonable rent.

Congress resumed its earlier practice of vesting concurrently the enforcement of federally created rights in the State and federal courts.

The specialty appeared to be staffed by geologists who loved puzzles and had advanced degrees, with concentrations in geochemistry and sedimentology, and minors in law enforcement.

Silver Gulch was little enough that John Snow could always take a few minutes from law enforcement to join them.

If the tool satchel were ever discovered by Thelma Kibble or any other law enforcement officer, Cassie would have a degree of deniability that might keep her out of lockdown.

New York for the past three days presenting her kinesics seminar to local law enforcement agencies.

The Qeng Ho localizers were an almost magical improvement over previous standards of law enforcement.

If time and law enforcement resources were to be expended on the identity of the author or authors of the communications, emphasis should have been placed on the Lusk letter.