0 (of a law or rule) possible to make people obey, or possible to make happen or be accepted:
The guidelines are legally enforceable.
We need enforceable environmental and safety laws.
1 an enforceable law, rule, contract, etc. is one that people can be made to obey:
There are clear, enforceable rules regarding intellectual property and copyright protection.
There has to be economic reform that makes our laws enforceable.
Childcare workers are held to consistent and enforceable standards.
These standards were translated into enforceable obligations for individual producers and importers.
However, such contracts with large transfers may not be fully enforceable.
Enforceable wage agreements had long since replaced mutual trust, especially in long-distance navigation, perhaps because the employment relationship could be virtually modern in its anonymity.
Enforceable agreements presuppose that bargaining agents control most strike and lockout funds, and can impose fines for non-compliance (particularly important on the employer side).
The laissez-faire view holds that there is no enforceable duty to share the costs of other people's bad option luck.
