Definitions for enforcer

enforcer en·forc·er

Spelling: [en-fawr-ser, -fohr-]
IPA: /ɛnˈfɔr sər, -ˈfoʊr-/

Enforcer is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in enforcer (ceefnorr).

Definitions for enforcer

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.

Origin of enforcer

First recorded in 1570-80; enforce + -er1

Examples for enforcer

Stern represser of revolt, and enforcer of the law, was Gloucester himself a defaulter in these respects?

The late Miss Clarke has well said “to argue this point would be enforcer une porte ouverte.”

The PA has decided to take its job as enforcer very seriously these days.

As the system develops and our prejudices are abandoned, a method of policing must stand as an enforcer of international law.

Brunch is a catalyst, brunch is the enforcer of different-rules-for-the-weekend.

Yet love of justice is strong, even in the strictest enforcer of discipline—when the enforcer is Anglo-Saxon.

And the House can keep the witness there, using its own enforcer—its “sergeant at arms”—until the House session ends.

The next day, the enforcer made the girl “to ingest pills designed to induce spontaneous abortion.”

He ended up landing a small role as an enforcer for a high-level gangster.

The 6-foot-4, 240-pound enforcer must have raged inside to have this physically unprepossessing woman send him away for good.

Word Value for enforcer
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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