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Synonyms for enforce
ɛnˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrsen·force
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
enforce
To execute is to follow through to the end, put into absolute and final effect in action; to administer is to conduct as one holding a trust, as a minister and not an originator; the sheriff executes a writ; the trustee administers an estate, a charity, etc.; to enforce is to put into effect by force, actual or potential. To administer the laws is the province of a court of justice; to execute the laws is the province of a sheriff, marshal, constable, or other executive officer; to administer the law is to declare or apply it; to execute the law is to put it in force; for this enforce is the more general word, execute the more specific. From signifying to superintend officially some application or infliction, administer passes by a natural transition to signify inflict, mete out, dispense, and blows, medicine, etc., are said to be administered: a usage thoroughly established and reputable in spite of pedantic objections. Enforce signifies also to present and urge home by intellectual and moral force; as, to enforce a precept or a duty. Compare DO; KILL; MAKE.
Synonyms:
administer, carry out, do, execute, perform
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Princeton's WordNet
enforce, implement, applyverb
ensure observance of laws and rules
"Apply the rules to everyone";
Synonyms:
lend oneself, follow out, carry out, follow through, implement, employ, give, go through, hold, utilise, put on, follow up, use, impose, practice, put through, utilize, go for, applyenforce, imposeverb
compel to behave in a certain way
"Social relations impose courtesy"
Synonyms:
implement, bring down, visit, levy, impose, inflict, apply
Dictionary of English Synonymes
enforceverb
Synonyms:
give force to, urge with energy, set forth strongly, impress on the mindenforceverb
Synonyms:
put in execution, put in forceenforceverb
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "enforce":
implement, impose, apply, enforcing, uphold, implementation, assert, enforcement, implementing, execute
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#399 | visit | |
#555 | give | |
#956 | practice | |
#1061 | apply | |
#1275 | hold | |
#1539 | require | |
#1754 | implementation | |
#2614 | perform | |
#3243 | enforcement | |
#3402 | exact | |
#3594 | implement | |
#4916 | implementing | |
#6612 | strain | |
#6859 | execute | |
#8878 | utilize | |
#9099 | employ | |
#9288 | levy | |
#9781 | impose | |
#9811 | urge | |
#10166 | enforce | |
#12036 | administer | |
#13093 | assert | |
#17466 | enforcing | |
#22440 | uphold | |
#24756 | exert | |
#25684 | compel | |
#29003 | utilise | |
#34028 | inflict |
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Better to keep U.S. sanctions in place, strengthen them, enforce secondary sanctions on other nations, and pursue the hard-trodden path of diplomacy once more, difficult as it may be.
This whole mechanism only works if there is a credible threat of lawsuits being brought against an industry if they decide to ignore the law, so, we have been working to make sure that all those pieces are in place, that if we do have reports, that we do see evidence that they're violating the law, then we can actually enforce the law ourselves.
Today, legal loopholes significantly hinder the Department's ability to appropriately detain and promptly remove family units that have no legal basis to remain in the country, this rule addresses one of the primary pull factors for illegal immigration and allows the federal government to enforce immigration laws as passed by Congress.
While I appreciate that the Department of Education has finally fulfilled its obligation to investigate whether states have implemented policies, laws, or regulations to stop the heinous practice of ‘passing the trash,’ I am deeply concerned with these findings, any educator who engaged in sexual misconduct with a child should be barred from ever teaching in a classroom again, yet too many states do not have policies to ensure that is the case. Releasing this report is only the first step—the department must hold states accountable and use the tools at its disposal to enforce the law.
Thank you. I enforce Mario to continue to do his work, when he is sleeping, get up do your work. When he watching Netflix, get up do your work. Try to get to school on time. Get off the phone. Get off FaceTime. Yeah. Just keep redirecting.
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