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What does coercion mean?

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Noun
  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) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
  5. (linguistics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
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The manual explicitly prohibits threats, coercion, physical abuse, and waterboarding, which creates the sensation of drowning.
And so they became a marginal but prophetic group willing to testify with their lives to the atrocity of war and coercion.
We should love persuasion bunches, who operate through peaceful persuasion, while hating lynch mobs, who operate through violence and coercion.
While in his early days he had enjoyed some support among his own Ovimbundu people, by this time he was reduced to naked coercion.
He was the master of coercion and a really, really good guy to have fighting your corner.
On one level, a seamless robe of force and coercion linked the British response to external and internal challenges.

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