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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 Court held that picketing could also be a tool of economic coercion and restraint of trade, and hence could be regulated.
We have to see the reason behind the coercion, to experience the terribleness in the threat, before we, too, feel its presence.
He was the master of coercion and a really, really good guy to have fighting your corner.
The manual explicitly prohibits threats, coercion, physical abuse, and waterboarding, which creates the sensation of drowning.
It produces self-directed individuals who have learned how to acquire new skills without constant supervision or coercion.
Rabbinical courts throughout the rest of the world function without such powers of coercion.

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