underenforce

verb

Etymology

From under- + enforce.

  1. derived from infortiāre
  2. derived from enforcier
  3. inherited from enforcen
  4. formed as underenforce — “under- + enforce

Definitions

  1. 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA