coercion
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin coercitiō ("magesterial coercion"), from coercere, past participle coercitus (“to restrain, coerce”), from cum (“with”) + arceō ("to shut in, enclose"); see coerce.
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[edit] Noun
coercion (plural coercions)
- (not countable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
- (law, not countable) 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.
- (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
- (computing, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
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[edit] Translations
actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
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use of force to compel
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instance of coercing
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computing: conversion of a value of one data type to another
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[edit] References
- “coercion” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
- coercion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- coercion in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
