underenforce
verbEtymology From under- + enforce.
1
To enforce inadequately.
- But effective laws, already on the books, are pitifully underenforced by the Environmental Protection Agency.2009 September 24, “How to Stop Contaminating the Water”, in The New York Times:
- 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.2020 June 12, Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales, “Should we defund the police?”, in Capitalisn't:
- Antonyms
- overenforce
- Related terms
- underenforcement