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coercion 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Noun
/kōˈərZHən/,/-SHən/,
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coercions, plural;
  1. The practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats
    • - it wasn't slavery because no coercion was used
  1. the act of compelling by force of authority
  2. compulsion: using force to cause something to occur; "though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"; "they didn't have to use coercion"
  3. (coerce) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"
  4. (coercive) serving or intended to coerce; "authority is directional instead of coercive"
  5. Coercion is the practice of forcing another party to behave in an involuntary manner (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats, intimidation, trickery, or some other form of pressure or force. Such actions are used as leverage, to force the victim to act in the desired way. ...
  6. Coercion is a Swedish death metal band from Stockholm. It was formed by Kenneth Nyman, Rickard Thulin and Pelle Liljenberg in 1992.
  7. 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.
  8. Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing; 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; A specific instance of ...
  9. (coerce) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb; to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will; to force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type
  10. (Coerce) To compel or force someone to act or think in a certain way by the use of threats, pressure or intimidation.
  11. (coerce) (v.) to make somebody do something by force or threat (The court decided that David Beckham did not have to honor the contract because he had been coercedinto signing it.)
  12. (COERCE) To force into submission or compliance.
  13. (Coerce) vt. 1. To restrain or constrain by force, esp, by legal authority; curb 2. To force or compel to do something 3. To bring about by using force; enforce Coercion adj. The act or power of coercing
  14. (coerce) v.t. (an object to a type) to produce an object from the given object, without modifying that object, by following some set of coercion rules that must be specifically stated for any context in which this term is used. ...
  15. (coercive) (adj.): Serving or tending to force.
  16. Circumstances that may make a potential research participant feel that participation is not fully voluntary or without prejudice.
  17. The implicit conversion of an instance of one type to another during an operation which involves two arguments of the same type. For example, int(3.15) converts the floating point number to the integer 3, but in 3+4. ...
  18. Another act defined by most states as an "unfair trade practice." This one occurs when someone in the insurance business uses physical or mental force to persuade another to transact insurance.
  19. Forced or compelled into doing something, through fear, intimidation, and/or threats.  A notary should refuse to notarize a signature or acknowledgment unless all parties are willingly involved.
  20. To force someone to do something that they do not want to do.
  21. An extreme form of undue influence, involving a threat of harm or punishment for failure to participate in research. See “Undue influence.”
  22. The use of force or commands to gain obedience without willing consent of the individual.
  23. when a person is threatened with harm to do something they don’t want to do. Ie. “I will hurt you if you don’t go out with me.” “ I will tell everyone at school that you are a slut if you don’t sleep with me.”
  24. physical force or threat of such against persons or property