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# enforceable

«enforceable» in Mova's school dictionary: **enforceable can really be made to happen: people can be…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (enforceable; more enforceable, most enforceable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A rule, law or agreement that is enforceable can really be made to happen: people can be made to obey it, and there is a way to punish or stop those who break it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enforceable/#m1)

2) (law) A contract is enforceable if a court will make the people in it keep their promises. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enforceable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In citizenship and law lessons it separates rules that only sound good from rules that can actually be checked and backed up. In everyday life, parents and teachers learn that a rule must be enforceable to work: «No phones at dinner» is easier to check than «Be nicer». Phrases: «legally enforceable», «an enforceable contract», «not enforceable».

### examples

- A rule is only useful if it is enforceable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enforceable/#x1)
- A promise made in a playground game is not legally enforceable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enforceable/#x2)
- The teacher made the rule enforceable by collecting phones at the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enforceable/#x3)
- Is a ban on running in the corridor enforceable? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enforceable/#x4)
- The contract is enforceable, so both sides must keep it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enforceable/#x5)
- A law against littering is hard to enforce on an empty beach, so it is barely enforceable there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enforceable/#x6)

### note

Built from «enforce» (make people obey) + «-able». Opposite: unenforceable. Spelling: keep the e after c (enforce-able), because «c» before «a» would sound like k otherwise.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «enforceable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enforceable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.