Enforcement

noun

1. The exercise of force; compulsory or constraining action; compulsion; coercion.
2. That which enforces, urges, or compels; constraining or impelling power; efficient motive; impulse; exigence.
3. The act of enforcing; the act of giving force or effect to, or of putting in force; a forcing upon the understanding or the will: as, the enforcement of an argument by illustrations; enforcement of the laws by stringent measures.
4. The act of enforcing; compulsion.
5. A giving force to; a putting in execution.