"underenforce" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From under- + enforce.",
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          "ref": "2009 September 24, “How to Stop Contaminating the Water”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "But effective laws, already on the books, are pitifully underenforced by the Environmental Protection Agency.",
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          "ref": "2020 June 12, Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales, “Should we defund the police?”, in Capitalisn't:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "To enforce inadequately."
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        "(transitive) To enforce inadequately."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To enforce inadequately."
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