enforceabilityn.
/ɛnfɔːsəˈbɪlɪti//ɪnfɔːsəˈbɪlɪti/ The character or quality of being enforceable.
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enforceability1921
compellability1930
1921 B. M. Squires in J. R. Commons Trade Unionism & Labor Problems xliv. 786 An admission of illegality must necessarily reflect upon the enforceability of the provisions of the act.
1925 Glasgow Herald 9 Sept. 10 The danger of ‘a Legislature which has grown accustomed to pass any number of laws without concern for their consequences or their enforceability’.
1928 Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inq.) iii. xvii. 212 The possibility of obtaining legal enforceability for their decisions.
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n.1921- to go adown
- to go adown to work
- to go afairing
- to go afishing
- to go after
- to go after gods
- to go after or follow strange flesh
- to go after other gods
- to go again
- to go against
- to go against nature
- to go against the crowd
- to go against the grain
- to go agateward with
- to go agirling
- to go agley
- to go agooding
- to go agunning
- to go ahead
- to go all hot and cold
- to go all in
- to go all lengths
- to go all of the worst
- to go all out
- to get a person's goat up