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coercion en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /koʊˈɝʒən/ (General-American)
• /kɐʉˈøːʃən/ (New-Zealand)
• /kəʉˈɜːʃən/ (Australia)
• /koʊˈɝʃən/ (General-American)
• /kəʊˈɜːʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English cohercioun, from Old French cohercion, from Latin coërcitiō (“magisterial coercion”), from past participle coercitus of coërceō (“to restrain, coerce”), from co- (“with”) + arceō (“to shut in, enclose”); see coerce.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
   • One of the primary objectives of the foreign policy of the United States is the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion. 1947 March 12, Harry S. Truman, 5:24 from the start, in MP72-14 Excerpt - Truman Doctrine Speech, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
2. (uncountable) 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.
3. (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
4. (countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
5. (countable, uncountable) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
   • ...a conversion of mass nouns into count readings according to sorter and portion coercion is only possible if the denotation of a mass noun already comprises minimal parts into which the noun can be subdivided. 2016, Susanne Mohr, “From Accra to Nairobi – the use of pluralized mass nouns in East and West African postcolonial Englishes”, in Daniel Schmidt-Brücken, Susanne Schuster, Marina Wienberg, editors, Aspects of (Post)Colonial Linguistics, Berlin: DeGruyter, →OCLC, page 161:
   • But often the pieces of information do not fit together and have to be shifted in meaning to confirm with the rest of the sentence. These shifts are called coercion 2008, Oliver Bott, “Doing It Again and Again May Be Difficult, But It Depends on What You Are Doing”, in Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, page 63:
6. (countable, uncountable) The initiation or threat of conflict; aggression.

Forms

Antonyms

noncoercion

Deriveds

coercionary · coercionist

Hyponyms

type coercion

Relateds

coercive · coercitive · coerce · coercible · coercer

Translations (108)

hu konverzió (computing: conversion of a value of one data type to another) · mn албадлага (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · sk donútenie (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · vi sự ép buộc (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ar دَفْع (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · pt coação (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · mi uruhanga (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ar قَسْر (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ja 強制 (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · km ការបង្ខិតបង្ខំ (use of force to compel) · id paksaan (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · tr icbar (use of force to compel) · gd ceannsachadh (use of force to compel) · ca coerció (instance of coercing) · sq shtrëngim (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · es coerción (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · lv spiediens (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · gl coerción (use of force to compel) · fi pakottaminen (instance of coercing) · ar اِضْطِرَار (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · el εξαναγκασμός (instance of coercing) · km ការបង្ខិតបង្ខំ (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · hi प्रपीड़न (use of force to compel) · ru наси́лие (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · hi ज़ोर-जबरदस्ती (use of force to compel) · pl przymus (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · gl coerción (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · oc coercicion (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · eo altipigo (computing: conversion of a value of one data type to another) · he כפייה (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · km ការសង្កត់សង្កិន (use of force to compel) · ja 強迫 (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ru принужде́ние (use of force to compel) · no tvang (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ko 강압 (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · cmn 威迫 (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · cmn 強迫 /强迫 (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · sk prinútenie (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · et sundimine (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · lt privertimas (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · km ការសង្កត់សង្កិន (instance of coercing) · km ពលការ (use of force to compel) · ar إِلْزَام (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · bg насилие (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · hy հարկադրում (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · pt coerção (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ro coercitare (use of force to compel) · sv betvingande (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ru приведение (computing: conversion of a value of one data type to another) · km ពលការ (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · el καταπίεση (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · da tvang (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · gd ceannsachadh (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · lv piespiešana (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ar إِكْرَاه (use of force to compel) · et sund (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · sh prisila (instance of coercing) · gl coerción (instance of coercing) · ar غَصْب (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · fr coercition (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ar إِكْرَاه (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · be пры́мус (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · el εξαναγκασμός (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · fr coercition (computing: conversion of a value of one data type to another) · de Zwang (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · sh prisila (use of force to compel) · km ការបង្ខិតបង្ខំ (instance of coercing) · sv tvång (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · nl dwang (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ar جَبْر (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · yi צוואַנג (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · hu kényszer (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · tr zorlama (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · hi ज़ोर-जबरदस्ती (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · el εξαναγκασμός (use of force to compel) · mk принуда (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · lt prievarta (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · pt coerção (use of force to compel) · fi pakottaminen (use of force to compel) · bg принуда (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ru принужде́ние (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · sh prinuda (instance of coercing) · km ការសង្កត់សង្កិន (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · fi pakottaminen (computing: conversion of a value of one data type to another) · hu kényszerítés (use of force to compel) · ar عَنْت (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · la coactus (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ar قَهْر (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · sh prinuda (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · sl prisila (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ja 威圧 (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · hy բռնադատում (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · cs donucení (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ar إِرْغَام (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · tr cebir (use of force to compel) · ro coerciție (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · fi pakkokeino (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · la coactus (use of force to compel) · sh prisila (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · hu kényszerítés (instance of coercing) · uk при́мус (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · fi pakko (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ko 강제 (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ca coerció (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · de Nötigung (use of force to compel) · ar إِجْبَار (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · it coercizione (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person) · ka ძალდატანება (actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person)