Enforcer (Noun)
Meaning
One whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- He rose to become a powerful enforcer in the organized crime family, eliminating any who stood in their way.
- Her manager tasked the young assistant with firing unproductive employees, making them an enforcer of corporate efficiency.
- Vinnie, known as 'the hammer,' worked as the local enforcer, meting out beatings on anyone who couldn't repay loans to his mobster employer.
- Lucille feared confronting an unhappy client so assigned Jane to play the role of enforcer on particularly sticky problems.
- Leo climbed up through corporate ranks not due to finesse or ideas but purely due to talent in putting other folks through significant unasked scrutiny or applying greater fiscal caution measures ordered under behest to boss prompting by association at-large tagging at upper eschelons : it enforces very conservative yet realistic firm cut that every institution be effectively obligated work financially feasible , serving quite smoothly thereafter most convincingly during peak late.