into force

idiom

: into the condition of actually working or operating : into effect

The law came/went into force last year.

The regulations have not yet been put/brought into force.

Examples of into force in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Mario Tama/Getty Images Under the new rules, which came into force last summer, sellers are banned from setting commissions for buyer's agents on a multiple listing service (MLS), the kind of platform agents use to list properties for sale. —Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025

The forestry board, however, had missed a January 2023 deadline to approve regulations to put Zone Zero into force — and the rules remained in limbo when LA burned. —Bloomberg, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025

Last month, new provisions in the Online Safety Act requiring large online platforms to implement age checks to prevent children from accessing pornographic and appropriate material came into force. —Ryan Browne, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2025

New Trump tariffs come into force worldwide US President Donald Trump’s global tariffs kicked in, reshaping international commerce by instituting levies on imports from friend and foe alike. —semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for into force

• counterforce
• intercourse
• nonrecourse
• reinforce
• watercourse
• bourse
• coarse
• course
• gorse
• hoarse
• horse
• norse