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coercion

/koʊˈɝʃən/

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noun

(not countable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.

Examples :

"The teacher used coercion to make the students complete their homework. "

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noun

(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.

Examples :

"The employee signed the contract only because of coercion from his boss, who threatened to fire him if he didn't. "

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noun

A specific instance of coercing.

Examples :

"The teacher's coercion of the students to finish the assignment was unfair. "

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noun

Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.

Examples :

"The program performed a coercion of the student's age from a text string to an integer. "

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The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.

Examples :

"The coercion of the word "run" in the sentence "The store ran out of milk" is different from the coercion of "run" in "He ran quickly." "

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