coercion
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See also: coerción
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle English cohercioun, from Old French cohercion, from Latin coercitiō (“magisterial coercion”), from past participle coercitus of coerceō (“to restrain, coerce”), from co- (“with”) + arceō (“to shut in, enclose”); see coerce.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /koʊˈɜːʃən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /koʊˈɝʒən/, /koʊˈɝʃən/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
[edit]coercion (countable and uncountable, plural coercions)
- (uncountable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
- 1947 March 12, Harry S. Truman, 5:24 from the start, in MP72-14 Excerpt - Truman Doctrine Speech[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
- One of the primary objectives of the foreign policy of the United States is the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion.
- (law, uncountable) 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.
- (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
- (programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
- (linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
- 2008, Oliver Bott, “Doing It Again and Again May Be Difficult, But It Depends on What You Are Doing”, in Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics[2], page 63:
- But often the pieces of information do not fit together and have to be shifted in meaning to confirm with the rest of the sentence. These shifts are called coercion
- 2016, Susanne Mohr, “From Accra to Nairobi – the use of pluralized mass nouns in East and West African postcolonial Englishes”, in Daniel Schmidt-Brücken, Susanne Schuster, Marina Wienberg, editors, Aspects of (Post)Colonial Linguistics, Berlin: DeGruyter, →OCLC, page 161:
- ...a conversion of mass nouns into count readings according to sorter and portion coercion is only possible if the denotation of a mass noun already comprises minimal parts into which the noun can be subdivided.
- (libertarianism) The initiation or threat of conflict; aggression.
Antonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
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use of force to compel
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instance of coercing
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computing: conversion of a value of one data type to another
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Trivia
[edit]One of three common words ending in -cion, which are coercion, scion, and suspicion.[1][2]
References
[edit]- “coercion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “coercion”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “coercion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
coercion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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