Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or practice of coercing.
- noun Power or ability to coerce.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Compulsion; forcible constraint; the act of controlling by force or arms.
- noun Power of restraint or compulsion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of coercing.
- noun (Law) The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. “Coactus volui” (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun not countable
Actual orthreatened force for the purpose ofcompelling action by another person; the act ofcoercing . - noun law, not countable Use of
physical ormoral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise offree will . - noun countable A
specific instance ofcoercing . - noun computing, countable
Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun using force to cause something to occur
- noun the act of compelling by force of authority
Etymologies
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Examples
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And when we use the term coercion, nothing is farther from our thoughts than the carrying of blood and fire among those whom we still consider our brethren of South Carolina.
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays James Russell Lowell 1855
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The court applies what it calls a coercion standard, a coercion test, which is to say that nobody is alleging that the daughter of Michael Nubo (ph) Nudo (ph) who is described in the court briefings as an atheist.
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Calling inappropriate laws "coercion" is neither necessary nor sufficient to make that case.
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Yet if coercion is officially banned, how will Americans come to a consensus about what kind of coercion is and isn't appropriate?
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Yet if coercion is officially banned, how will Americans come to a consensus about what kind of coercion is and isn't appropriate?
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In fact, coercion is more of a guy thing, so in that sense libertarianism is a female philosophy.
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Without a social agreement as to what activities are unacceptable, the definition of what constitues coercion is very narrow indeed (perhaps only assault and the threat thereof), and the property right extends no further than what one can carry on one's person, and in some cases, maybe not even that far.
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Do you really think coercion is needed to reach a solution to coordination problems?
Another Herring, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Forcible coercion is probably not required in most circumstances: hints, looking disappointed, pretending to be sensitive and caring for a few days while telling her it is the right thing to do, making it clear that you would not be interested in her if she had a child, pretending you would love her less with a child, etc. is probably all that is necessary.
October 31st, 2009 m_francis 2009
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That is equivalent to getting rid of the secret ballot, in that it invites coercion from the pro-union workers.
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