enforcer

noun

Definition of enforcernext
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as in disciplinarian

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as in thug

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Recent Examples of enforcer Former Bruins enforcer Lyndon Byers, who died in 2025 at the age of 61, suffered from stage 3 chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 28 May 2026 Robinson is New York’s rim protector and glass-cleaner, a vertical spacing threat and emotional enforcer all-in-one. — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026 Biden’s antitrust enforcers were also wrong to believe that their Democratic predecessors had ignored all factors other than costs to consumers. — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026 Sacha Boisvert has a chance to be the Hawks’ future enforcer. — Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for enforcer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enforcer
  1. disciplinarian
  2. thug
  3. taskmaster
  4. gangster
  5. dictator
  6. mobster
  7. tyrant
  8. racketeer
Noun
  • During his time with the Yankees, Mendoza was known as a disciplinarian behind the scenes, but the team loved and respected his hard coaching.
    — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • You are asked to be teachers, counselors, social workers, disciplinarians, mentors, advocates, crisis managers and emotional anchors for children navigating an increasingly complicated world.
    — Susana A. Mendoza, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
Definition of disciplinarian
Noun
  • Threatening to limit mail-in voting, adding ridiculous ID requirements, or staging thugs at polling places are other possible ways to convince you to stay home.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 July 2026
  • To be sure, the thugs of Hamas and Hezbollah committed a horrific massacre of young Jewish civilians enjoying a music festival on October 7, 2023.
    — DP Opinion, Denver Post, 6 July 2026
Definition of thug
Noun
  • Still, as the day progresses, Mercury approaches a square to taskmaster Saturn, which becomes exact very early tomorrow.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
  • She is thrown into isolation before getting the opportunity to once again assimilate, Marc is a genuine taskmaster, but a dedicated defender publicly and to the cops about the legitimacy of his operation and its residents.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 15 May 2026
Definition of taskmaster
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  • Madonna was stopped dead in her tracks by the strapping 30-year-old auteur of the nouvelle vague gangster movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, an eye-popping directorial debut.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 July 2026
  • Yet Francis Ford Coppola's original sprawling gangster epic is undeniable.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Definition of gangster
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  • Trump has praised Communist dictators in terms unlike those used by any American president outside the context of a wartime alliance.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • During the Cold War, quixotic Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha built some 750,000 concrete pillboxes to fend off a phantom invasion that never came.
    — Max Grinstein, The Washington Examiner, 3 July 2026
Definition of dictator
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  • Fortunately, Dusse lightens the lawyer’s spiral into his mobster client’s dark underworld with wry humor and pointed skewering of both the wellness industry and the criminal legal profession.
    — The Know, Denver Post, 5 July 2026
  • Famous former inmates include mobster Whitey Bulger and, rather surprisingly, Henry David Thoreau.
    — Andrew Sessa, Robb Report, 2 July 2026
Definition of mobster
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  • Because, after all, as in all of Haber’s novels, the point is not really what is happening in the world but what is happening in the mind—in this case the mind of the pettiest of tyrants.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
  • Joseph Stalin—the Soviet Union’s supreme ruler from 1929 to 1953 and a murderous tyrant legendary for drinking friends and enemies under the table—was a closet oenophile, the e-mail explained.
    — Frankie Mills, Air Mail, 27 June 2026
Definition of tyrant
Noun
  • Ferro pleaded guilty in October 2025 to conspiracy to participate in a racketeer influenced and corrupt organization.
    — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • The characters were based on a real family of bookmakers and racketeers who once lived in England.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 5 Mar. 2026
Definition of racketeer

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