enforcement

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act of enforcing; compulsion.

   [M]en lyued ſimplye and innocentlye without inforcement of lawes, without quarellinge Judges and libelles, contente onely to ſatiſfie nature, without further vexation for knowledge of thinges to come.

2. 2
   noun

   the act of enforcing

3. 3
   noun

   A giving force to; a putting in execution.

4. 4
   noun

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

Etymology

From Old French enforcement, see enforce + -ment.