Look up: coercion

1. coercion
   [n] - the act of compelling by force of authority
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2. Coercion
   Coercion exists when an individual is forced to behave in a particular way, by threats of violence, for example. The person concerned does not act freely
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3. Coercion
   Co·er'cion noun [ Latin coercio , from coercere . See Coerce .] 1. The act or process of coercing. 2. (Law) The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and canno...
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4. coercion
   The process of compelling a person to act, or refrain from acting, contrary to his free choice often by use of threat of physical or moral force. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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5. Coercion
   • (n.) The act or process of coercing. • (n.) 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 void...
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6. coercion
   coercion 1. The process of compelling a person to act, or refrain from acting, contrary to his or her free choice often by use of threat of physical or moral force. 2. Force or threats used to make someone do something against his or her will.
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7. coercion
   implicit type conversion
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8. coercion
   
   • the act of compelling by force of authority
   • using force to cause something
   
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9. coercion
   A form of power based on forced compliance through fear and intimidation.
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10. coercion
    coercion, in law, the unlawful act of compelling a person to do, or to abstain from doing, something by depriving him of the exercise of his free will, particularly by use or threat of physical or moral force. In many states of the United States, statutes declare a person guilty of a misdemeanor if ...
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11. Coercion
    Criminal Law, Contracts. Constraint; compulsion; force. It is positive or presumed.
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12. Coercion
    In law, coercion is moral or physical pressure employed to force a person to do some act. In civil law, where an act is required to be done freely, such as in marriage etc., it will be invalidated by the element of coercion.
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13. Coercion
    `Coercion` () is the practice of using threats, rewards, intimidation, or any other incentive to affect another. In law, coercion is codified as the duress crime. Such actions are used as leverage, to force the victim to act in the desired way. Coercion may involve the actual infliction of physical ...
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14. Coercion
    (band) `Coercion` is a Swedish death metal band from Stockholm. It was formed by Kenneth Nyman, Rickard Thulin and Pelle Liljenberg in 1992. From December 1997 to January 1998, Coercion toured Germany and Poland, supported by Purgatory, Impending Doom, and Cryptic Tales in support of their de...
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15. Coercion
    (linguistics) 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. Coercion is closely related to the notions of active zone, construal/conceptualization, and synt...
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