Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To pressure, intimidate, or force (someone) into doing something. synonym: force.
- transitive verb To bring about or gain by pressure, threat, or force.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To restrain or constrain by force, as by the force of law or authority; especially, compel to compliance; constrain to obedience or submission in a vigorous or forcible manner.
- To deprive of by force; restrain of.
- To enforce; compel by forcible action: as, to coerce obedience.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
- transitive verb To compel or constrain to any action.
- transitive verb To compel or enforce.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
- verb transitive to use
force ,threat ,fraud , orintimidation in attempt tocompel one to act against his will. - verb transitive, computing to
force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Its implicit definition of "coerce" is ... strange.
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Should you or someone you know and can coerce is interested is this contact me.
Archive 2008-08-31 Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2008
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Should you or someone you know and can coerce is interested is this contact me.
Demand the silver you want! Or make your own! Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2008
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And I've certainly been the target of attempts to "coerce" - as has anyone who has read a blog post pushing a certain position.
First Amendment Rights Watch: Criminalizing the Internet 2009
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More broadly, the fundamental point is that once you have decided you are going to "coerce" a person into telling you what you want to hear with any of these means -- waterboarding, sleep deprivation, hypothermia, etc. -- you have committed to torturing them.
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More broadly, the fundamental point is that once you have decided you are going to "coerce" a person into telling you what you want to hear with any of these means -- waterboarding, sleep deprivation, hypothermia, etc. -- you have committed to torturing them.
Hillary: I Will Oppose Mukasey Confirmation Over Torture Comments 2009
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Maybe if you felt the government had no power to "coerce" religion, you would not fear the employee of the government (no more than a human being, like all others, whose paycheck is funded by tax revenues rahter than commerce) having any power to affect religius conversion beyond what any other person you might meet that wishes to express their religious views.
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You don't need to "coerce" the converted.. the Supreme Court of Canada clearly reflects the interests and ideals of the Government who appointed them.. and they are completely devoid of direct political pressure..
And if you don't like their principles ...: Part 5,921. CC 2008
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You don't need to "coerce" the converted.. the Supreme Court of Canada clearly reflects the interests and ideals of the Government who appointed them.. and they are completely devoid of direct political pressure..
And if you don't like their principles ...: Part 5,921. CC 2008
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Yet it unequivocally states that the People "Shall not" (imperative) "coerce" the government, without defining what form such "coercion" takes.
Please sign this open letter to Moveon.org et al re. petitions to topple The Thought Crimes Bill 2008
zc0000 commented on the word coerce
In addition, a dependency property can be implemented to provide self-contained validation, default values, callbacks that monitor changes to other properties, and a system that can coerce property values based on potentially runtime information.
April 26, 2010
lweber5@scf.edu commented on the word coerce
They coerced him into signing the document. - Websters Dictionary pg. 15
September 24, 2010