underenforce
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editunderenforce (third-person singular simple present underenforces, present participle underenforcing, simple past and past participle underenforced)
- (transitive) To enforce inadequately.
- 2009 September 24, “How to Stop Contaminating the Water”, in New York Times[1]:
- But effective laws, already on the books, are pitifully underenforced by the Environmental Protection Agency.