coercion

See also: coerción

English

Etymology

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French cohercion, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin coercitiō (“magisterial coercion”), from coercere, past participle coercitus (“to restrain, coerce”), from cum (“with”) + arceō (“to shut in, enclose”); see coerce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koʊˈɝʒən/, /koʊˈɝʃən/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

coercion (countable and uncountable, plural coercions)

1. (not countable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
2. (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.
3. (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
4. (programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
5. (linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
   • 2008, Oliver Bott, “Doing It Again and Again May Be Difficult, But It Depends on What You Are Doing”, in Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics‎^[1], page 63:

     But often the pieces of information do not fit together and have to be shifted in meaning to confirm with the rest of the sentence. These shifts are called coercion

   • 2016, Susanne Mohr, “From Accra to Nairobi – the use of pluralized mass nouns in East and West African postcolonial Englishes”, in Daniel Schmidt-Brücken, Susanne Schuster, Marina Wienberg, editors, Aspects of (Post)Colonial Linguistics, Berlin: DeGruyter, →OCLC, page 161:

     ...a conversion of mass nouns into count readings according to sorter and portion coercion is only possible if the denotation of a mass noun already comprises minimal parts into which the noun can be subdivided.

Antonyms

• noncoercion

Hyponyms

• type coercion

Derived terms

• coercionary
• coercionist

 

Related terms

• coerce
• coercer
• coercible
• coercitive
• coercive

 

Translations

actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person

• Arabic: قهر, قسر, غصب, عنت, دفع (ar), جبر (ar), اِضْطِرَار (iḍṭirār), إِلْزَام (ʔilzām), إِكْرَاه (ar) (ʔikrāh), إرْغَام (ʔirḡām), إِجْبَار (ʔijbār)
• Belarusian: пры́мус m (prýmus)
• Bulgarian: принуда (bg) (prinuda), насилие (bg) (nasilie)
• Catalan: coerció f
• Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 強迫／强迫 (zh), 强迫 (zh) (qiǎngpò), 威迫 (zh) (wēipò)

• Czech: donucení n
• Danish: tvang (da)
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: dwang (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: pakko (fi), pakkokeino (fi)
• French: coercition (fr) f
• Georgian: ძალდატანება (ʒaldaṭaneba)
• German: Zwang (de) m
• Greek: εξαναγκασμός (el) m (exanagkasmós), καταπίεση (el) f (katapíesi)
• Hebrew: כפייה (he) f (kfi'a)
• Hungarian: kényszer (hu)
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• Italian: coercizione (it)
• Japanese: 強制 (ja) (きょうせい, kyōsei), 威圧 (ja) (いあつ, iatsu), 強迫 (ja) (きょうはく, kyōhaku)
• Khmer: ការបង្ខិតបង្ខំ (kaa bɑŋkʰət bɑŋkʰɑm), ពលការ (pʊəl kaa), ការសង្កត់សង្កិន (kaa sɑŋkɑt sɑŋkən)
• Korean: 강제 (ko) (gangje), 강압 (ko) (gang'ap)
• Maori: uruhanga
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: албадлага (mn) (albadlaga)
• Norwegian: tvang (no)
• Polish: przymus (pl) m
• Portuguese: coacção (pt), coerção (pt)
• Romanian: coerciție (ro) f
• Russian: принужде́ние (ru) n (prinuždénije), наси́лие (ru) n (nasílije)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceannsachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: prisila (sh) f, prinuda (sh)
• Spanish: coerción (es) f
• Swedish: betvingande (sv), tvång (sv) n
• Turkish: zorlama (tr)
• Ukrainian: при́мус (uk) m (prýmus)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can

use of force to compel

• Arabic: أَهَمِّيَّة (ʔahammiyya), وُجُوب (wujūb)
• Finnish: pakottaminen (fi)
• German: Nötigung (de) f
• Greek: εξαναγκασμός (el) m (exanagkasmós)
• Hungarian: kényszerítés (hu)
• Khmer: ការបង្ខិតបង្ខំ (kaa bɑŋkʰət bɑŋkʰɑm), ពលការ (pʊəl kaa), ការសង្កត់សង្កិន (kaa sɑŋkɑt sɑŋkən)
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• Portuguese: coerção (pt) f
• Romanian: coercitare f
• Russian: принужде́ние (ru) n (prinuždénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceannsachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: prisila (sh) f
• Turkish: cebir (tr), icbar (tr)

instance of coercing

• Catalan: coerció
• Finnish: pakottaminen (fi)
• Greek: εξαναγκασμός (el) m (exanagkasmós)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: kényszerítés (hu)
• Khmer: ការបង្ខិតបង្ខំ (kaa bɑŋkʰət bɑŋkʰɑm), ការសង្កត់សង្កិន (kaa sɑŋkɑt sɑŋkən)
• Serbo-Croatian: prisila (sh) f, prinuda (sh) f

computing: conversion of a value of one data type to another

• Finnish: pakottaminen (fi)
• French: coercition (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: konverzió (hu)

Trivia

One of three common words ending in -cion, which are coercion, scion, and suspicion.

References

• “coercion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “coercion”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “coercion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• criocone