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LAW ENFORCEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does law enforcement mean? 

LAW ENFORCEMENT (noun)
  The noun LAW ENFORCEMENT has 1 sense:

1. ensuring obedience to the lawsplay

  Familiarity information: LAW ENFORCEMENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LAW ENFORCEMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Ensuring obedience to the laws

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("law enforcement" is a kind of...):

enforcement (the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "law enforcement"):

vigilantism (the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws)


 Context examples 


The study comes at a time when facial analysis technologies — which use hidden cameras to assess and characterize certain features about an individual — are becoming increasingly prevalent, embedded in everything from smartphone dating apps and digital kiosks at malls to airport security and law enforcement surveillance systems.

(Facial recognition software has a gender problem, National Science Foundation)



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