enactment
noun
en·act·ment
i-ˈnak(t)-mənt 
Examples of enactment in a Sentence
as a result of an enactment by Congress, this breathtaking canyon will be permanently protected from development
the enactment of the crime is suggested but never actually shown on screen
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The bill calls for the new authority to put together a plan for acquiring CATS’ assets from Charlotte and for reimbursing Charlotte for the the purchase of railroad tracks for the Red Line commuter rail project within a year of the bill’s enactment.
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Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2025
Despite their ubiquity at the club and in the bedroom, poppers have existed in a dubiously legal space since the enactment of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, which outlawed the sale of butyl nitrite, one of the compounds that can be used as poppers.
—James Factora, Them, 14 Mar. 2025
Hostility to the standing army dictatorship of England’s Earl of Strafford and Oliver Cromwell after him was a major inducement to the enactment of the Bill of Rights, initially conceived as limiting federal but not state powers.
—George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2025
The global business world is getting more complicated by the day, especially through the chaotic cadence of new tariff enactments and threats.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2025
Despite their ubiquity at the club and in the bedroom, poppers have existed in a dubiously legal space since the enactment of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, which outlawed the sale of butyl nitrite, one of the compounds that can be used as poppers.
—James Factora, Them, 14 Mar. 2025
Hostility to the standing army dictatorship of England’s Earl of Strafford and Oliver Cromwell after him was a major inducement to the enactment of the Bill of Rights, initially conceived as limiting federal but not state powers.
—George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2025
The global business world is getting more complicated by the day, especially through the chaotic cadence of new tariff enactments and threats.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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“Enactment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enactment. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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enactment
noun
en·act·ment
in-ˈak(t)-mənt
1
: the act of enacting : the state of being enacted
2
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