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coercion
Noun
  • Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing. 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. law, not countable
  • A specific instance of coercing. countable
  • Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type. programming, countable