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coercion
1. n. (not ) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
2. n. (legal, not ) 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. n. A specific instance of coercing.
4. n. (programming) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
5. n. (linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
6. Trivia. One of three common words ending in -cion, which are coercion, scion, and suspicion.Notes and Queries, Vol. VI, No. 10, 1889, October,Editor and Publisher, Volume 9, 1909, https://books.

Example Sentences

It is about education, not coercion.  They were also brutally used and wasted, and coercion was not absent.  The relatively puny organisation of those days has since been elaborated into an intricate structure of control and coercion.

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