Definitions for enforcers

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enforcers en·forc·er

Spelling: [en-fawr-ser, -fohr-]

IPA: /ɛnˈfɔr sər, -ˈfoʊr-/

Enforcers is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 280 anagrams from letters in enforcers (ceefnorrs).

Definitions for enforcers

noun

1. a person or thing that enforces.
2. the member of a group, especially of a gang, charged with keeping dissident members obedient.
3. a person, especially a public official, who enforces laws, regulations, rules, or the like.
4. Also called policeman. Ice Hockey. a physically intimidating or willingly belligerent player who is counted on to retaliate when rough tactics are used by the opposing team.

verb (used with object)

1. to put or keep in force; compel obedience to:
2. to obtain (payment, obedience, etc.) by force or compulsion.
3. to impose (a course of action) upon a person:
4. to support (a demand, claim, etc.) by force:
5. to impress or urge (an argument, contention, etc.) forcibly; lay stress upon:

Origin of enforcers

First recorded in 1570-80; enforce + -er¹

Examples for enforcers

In January 2005, enforcers learned that one of the girls was expecting a child.

About half of the enforcers are locals—they are ones who wear face masks most of the time.

And the best part for the enforcers of righteousness is that their dictates never have to be explained in any meaningful sense.

Soon after their discussions, Agha and Hassan were arrested by Taliban enforcers.

“The skepticism does not arise over technology, but it instead arises over the will of the enforcers,” she said.

Indeed, they mistrust women, whom they see as enforcers of middle-class earning expectations they cannot meet.

Occasional shouting matches broke out between the Salafist enforcers and demonstrators who seemed to have come to fight.

Before it, enforcers as high up as the FBI relied mostly on revolvers.