different between clampdown vs enforcement

English

clamp +? down, from the phrasal verb.

clampdown (plural clampdowns)

A sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control
- 1994, Vincent Cable, The World's New Fissures: Identities in Crisis
  There is already in the EU a clamour for barriers against competing products from Eastern Europe and Asia, and for a Europe-wide clampdown on 'aliens'.

From Old French enforcement, see enforce +? -ment.

enforcement (usually uncountable, plural enforcements)

The act of enforcing; compulsion.
A giving force to; a putting in execution.
That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.

enforcement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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