enact
en-AKTverbMeaning to make into law
Memory hook EN-ACT: turn a plan INTO an ACT (a law). The town council votes yes, and the mayor signs the new leash rule with a flourish: now it is an official act. To make a plan into law is to enact it.
The town council enacted a rule requiring dogs to be leashed in the park.
In context After years of debate, the state finally enacted the safety law, and by the next spring every new school bus had seat belts.
Similar pass, establish, make law
Opposite repeal, abolish, rescind
From en (into) + act, a law passed by a lawmaking body: to put into an act.