"enforceable" meaning in English

See enforceable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: enforceable [positive], more enforceable [comparative], most enforceable [superlative]
Etymology: enforce + -able Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|enforce|able}} enforce + -able Head templates: {{adj|more=true}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If something is enforceable, it can be enforced.
    Sense id: simple-enforceable-en-adj-Zl2T8-D7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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