coerce
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< Latin coercere (“‘to surround, encompass, restrain, control, curb’”) < co- (“‘together’”) + arcere (“‘to inclose, confine, keep off’”); see arcade, arcane, ark.
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to coerce (third-person singular simple present coerces, present participle coercing, simple past and past participle coerced)
- To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
- (transitive) to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will.
- (transitive) (computing) to force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
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to use force, threat, 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
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[edit] External links
- coerce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- coerce in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
