English-Portuguese translations for enforce

• reforçar
  É preciso reforçar a coesão na perspectiva do alargamento da União.Cohesion and enlargement have to be re-enforced head-on.
  Não devíamos aliviar, mas sim reforçar, as regras contra o comércio desleal. We should not loosen the rules against unfair trade, but rather enforce them.
  Estou empenhado em continuar a reforçar as actividades de controlo e supervisão. I am committed to continuing to strengthen control and enforcement activities.

Definition of enforce

• To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
• To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.
• To strengthen with extra troops, fortifications etc.
• To exert oneself, to try hard.
• To compel, oblige ; to force.
• To make or gain by force; to force
• To put in motion or action by violence; to drive
• To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy
• To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon
• To prove; to evince

Examples

• The police are there to enforce the law
• The victim was able to enforce his evidence against the alleged perpetrator.
• to enforce a passage
• to enforce arguments or requests

Related words

• enforced
• enforceable
• enforcer
• enforcement
• enforceability
• recovery of a debt by an enforcement order
• court enforcement
• law enforcement
• court enforcement agent