underenforce
verbEtymology
From under- + enforce.
- derived from infortiāre
- derived from enforcier
- inherited from enforcen
Definitions
To enforce inadequately.
- But effective laws, already on the books, are pitifully underenforced by the Environmental Protection Agency.
- I don’t know if it’s underenforcing or overenforcing the law. But, at least in the data, we see that Black officers are less likely to make a drug arrest than the others.
The neighborhood
- antonymoverenforce
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for underenforce. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA