coercion meaning

• Noun: coercion  kow'urshun
  1. The act of compelling by force of authority 
  2. Using force to cause something to occur
     "they didn't have to use coercion"
     - compulsion

  Derived forms: coercions

  See also: coerce

  Type of: causation, causing, enforcement

  Encyclopedia: Coercion

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  [Law]
  n. A defence available only to married women who have committed a crime (other than murder or treason) in the presence of, and under pressure from, their husbands. Its scope is unclear but may be wider than that of duress in that it may cover economic and moral as well as physical pressure, though unlike duress it has to be proved (see BURDEN OF PROOF). If a wife is acquitted on grounds of coercion, her husband may be liable for the offence in question through his wife's innocent agency and/or for a crime involving a threat.
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  [Medicine]
  The use of force or intimidation to obtain compliance.
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  [Computer]
  <programming> (Or "coercion") The abilty of some compilers to automatically insert type conversion functions where an expression of one type is used in a context where another type is expected.
  
  A common example is coercion of integers to reals so that an expression like sin(1) is compiled as sin(integerToReal(1)) where sin is of type Real -> Real.
  
  A coercion is usually performed automatically by the compiler whereas a cast is an explicit type conversion inserted by the programmer.
  
  See also subtype.

• Neither trickery nor coercion is used to secure confessions.
• No coercion is involved here.
• Administration allows the balance in state politics to be tilted to organization rather than coercion.
• Reconstrcting the basic category of administrative coercion
• Used to control the coercion of data types
• Type deduction ignores implicit conversions and coercions
• A power differential equals coercion . that is great
• The terrorists got what they wanted by coercion
• Characterized by or inclined to coercion
• The superpowers got what they wanted by coercion

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• "coercion" meaning in Japanese: coercion n. 強制, 強要. 【動詞＋】 ◆apply coercion 強制する ◆We must op...
• "coercion" meaning in Russian: 1) сдерживание (силой); обуздание2) принуждение Ex: under ...
• "coercion" meaning in French: n. coercition, contrainte