Definitions for enactment

enactment en·act·ment

Spelling: [en-akt-muh nt]
IPA: /ɛnˈækt mənt/

Enactment is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in enactment (aceemnntt).

Definitions for enactment

noun

  1. the act of enacting.
  2. the state or fact of being enacted.
  3. something that is enacted; a law or statute.
  4. a single provision of a law.

Origin of enactment

First recorded in 1810-20; enact + -ment

Examples for enactment

Let our first enactment be directed against the robbing of temples.

The irregularity of the meeting must be assigned to the enactment against which it offended.

That is why the enactment of the Affordable Care Act was so critical.

The enactment of these proposals would strike a much better balance between the interests of liberty and security.

There is much opposition to the enactment of a registry law.

Yet however long the enactment, the text of a complex modern statute is only the very roughest guide to its future operation.

The desire of the Executive for such an enactment arose in this manner.

First, he maintains that enactment of such a law “would overrule a historic Supreme Court decision.”

Startled, the people wondered was this enactment the forerunner of war.

Since its enactment in 1997, 752 Oregonians have used prescriptions for lethal medications for their intended purpose.

Word Value for enactment
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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