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enforcer

[ en-fawr-ser, -fohr- ]

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.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of enforcer1

First recorded in 1570–80; enforce + -er 1

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Example Sentences

Pinker is not a self-appointed enforcer of arbitrary rules, and he has little patience for purists, prigs, and pedants.

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

You play a sweet, soft-hearted mom in the film and John C. Reilly is the strict rule-enforcer.

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

To the hordes who wanted time with Lincoln, the gruff and efficient Nicolay was the “grim enforcer.”

Grandaddy was outstanding as a law enforcer and here was a petty offender right under his nose.

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

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

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

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

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