Meaning

5 senses
  1. One who enforces.

  2. A hired strongman, especially working for the underworld.

  3. The member of a group, especially of a gang, charged with keeping dissident members obedient.

  4. (UK)A battering ram used by the emergency services for gaining access to locked premises.

  5. A player who physically intimidates or confronts the opposition.

More definitions
  • one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior

Examples

1 sentences
  1. The mob enforcer kept a pair of brass knuckles in his coat pocket.

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Translations

1 languages

Forms

plural: enforcers
Singularenforcer
Pluralenforcers

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

2 related words
Relatedenforce

See also

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