Synonyms for enforce
ɛnˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrsen·force

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1. 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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1. enforce

   Synonyms:
   urge, compel, require, exact, exert, strain

   Antonyms:
   relax, waive, forego, remit, abandon

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. 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, apply

   Antonyms:
   free, relieve, exempt

2. enforce, imposeverb

   compel to behave in a certain way

   "Social relations impose courtesy"

   Synonyms:
   implement, bring down, visit, levy, impose, inflict, apply

   Antonyms:
   free, relieve, exempt

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1. enforceverb

   Synonyms:
   give force to, urge with energy, set forth strongly, impress on the mind

2. enforceverb

   Synonyms:
   put in execution, put in force

3. enforceverb

   Synonyms:
   constrain, compel, oblige, force, require

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1. List of paraphrases for "enforce":

   implement, impose, apply, enforcing, uphold, implementation, assert, enforcement, implementing, execute

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1. Robert Weissman:

   We need government prosecutors and government regulators to enforce the law, that's wholly within the power of the executive branch.

2. Larry Noble:

   Do we know how the campaign spent its money ? No, how do you enforce a personal use prohibition unless you know how the money is being used ? ... This is not any way you want to have a campaign finance log.

3. Kirstjen Nielsen:

   We are enforcing the laws passed by Congress, and we are doing all that we can in the executive branch to protect our communities. It is now time that Congress act to fix our broken immigration system, surely it is the beginning of the unraveling of democracy when the body who makes the laws, rather than changing them, asks the body who enforces the laws not to enforce the laws. That can not be the answer.

4. Peter Drobac:

   I think it'll be hard to get political and public support for it. I think it'll be hard to enforce and people are tired, in many ways, we think winter could be a perfect storm. That's why I wish we could have used our summer a lot better, to really crush the virus and make sure we were in better position for it.

5. Jeremy Tedesco:

   Every school district in America has gotten the message, the DOE is starting to enforce it through threats of revoking funding. We get calls every week from parents and school administrators asking what can we do? They are caving because they know the federal government is going to come after them.