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coercion::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | compulsion |
| Type of | causation, causing |
| Has types | constructive eviction, eviction |
| Derivation | coerce |
they didn't have to use coercion.
coercion::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | enforcement |
| Has types | terror |
| Derivation | coerce |
Examples of coercion
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The programmes I saw worked on what Liz calls mild coercion and a reward system.
From the guardian.co.uk
Duty done can make one feel good or may have the sense of internalised coercion.
From the guardian.co.uk
This subject can sometimes be fraught with the potential for perceived coercion.
From the stltoday.com
In that case, do you think of the monologue as a form of coercion or even abuse?
From the nytimes.com
The images and their merciless soundtrack create an unnerving sense of coercion.
From the washingtonpost.com
Wow, direct threats to our President and coercion from our billionaire oil boys.
From the guardian.co.uk
The scope of coercion has to do with who uses a conditional threat against whom.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It is also coercion to force health practitioners to go along with the promotion.
From the globalspin.blogs.time.com
Black expressed mystification as to why fines did not constitute such coercion.
From the time.com
- The act of compelling by force of authority
- Compulsion: using force to cause something to occur; "though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"; "they didn't have to use coercion"
- (coerce) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"
- (coercive) serving or intended to coerce; "authority is directional instead of coercive"
- Coercion is the practice of forcing another party to behave in an involuntary manner (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats, intimidation, trickery, or some other form of pressure or force. Such actions are used as leverage, to force the victim to act in the desired way. ...
- Coercion is a Swedish death metal band from Stockholm. It was formed by Kenneth Nyman, Rickard Thulin and Pelle Liljenberg in 1992.
- In linguistics, coercion is when the grammatical context causes the language-user to reinterpret all or parts of the semantic and/or formal features of a lexeme that appears in it.
- Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing; Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will; A specific instance of ...
- (coerce) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb; to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will; to force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type
