0 past simple and past participle of enact
1 to put something into action, especially to make something law:
While the community care legislation was enacted in 1990, full implementation was delayed until 1993.
Therefore, if legislators predict that bills will be enacted, they will vote for bills although they prefer to defeat bills.
Even (seemingly) unimportant enacted laws change the status quo policy and have greater utility than dead important bills.
No bill was enacted into law at this session.
The president may also want to break political stalemates within her party or put pressure on her opponents to get her policies enacted.
The deflationary policies enacted in response to the depression led to severe cutbacks in metropolitan army effectives in the early 1930s.
Judges defer to legislators when the will of the latter is clearly expressed in statutes that have been enacted in the procedurally correct way.
A good number of local constitutions have been reformed, and a few state laws on indigenous rights and culture have been enacted.
