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enact
[en-akt]
verb (used with object)
to make into an act or statute.
Congress has enacted a new tax law.
to represent on or as on the stage; act the part of.
to enact Hamlet.
enact
/ ɪˈæ /
verb
to make into an act or statute
to establish by law; ordain or decree
to represent or perform in or as if in a play; to act out
Other 51Թ Forms
- enactable adjective
- enactor noun
- preenact verb (used with object)
- reenact verb (used with object)
- unenacted adjective
- well-enacted adjective
- ˈٲ adjective
- ˈٴǰ noun
- ˈپ adjective
- ˈٳԳ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
Last Tuesday, the first day the curfew was enacted, 203 people were arrested for failure to disperse and 17 were arrested for violating the curfew.
If either the CMS rule or the corresponding provisions in the House reconciliation bill were enacted, states would be required to levy provider taxes equally on Medicaid and commercial business to draw federal dollars.
EMTALA, enacted in 1986, was designed to protect patients and ensure they receive stabilizing emergency care, regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay.
“This sudden, unexplained action feels like it was enacted without any care or consideration.”
Observers have seen these methods as the way to perpetuate a soft-authoritarianism, enacted smoothly without the violence that authoritarian governments have traditionally employed to quell opposition and consolidate power.
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