law enforcement

1. 1.

   ensuring obedience to the laws

   Broaderenforcement

   Narrowervigilantism

   law

Questions about law enforcement

What does law enforcement mean?

law enforcement means "ensuring obedience to the laws".

Is law enforcement a common word?

law enforcement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.