Usually means: Force someone to do something.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. coerce: Merriam-Webster
  2. coerce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coerce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coerce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. coerce: Vocabulary.com
  6. Coerce, coerce: Wordnik
  7. coerce: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. coerce: Wiktionary
  9. coerce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. coerce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. coerce: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. coerce: Dictionary.com
  13. coerce: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. coerce: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Coerce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Coerce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. coerce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. coerce: Rhymezone
  19. coerce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. coerce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. coerce: FreeDictionary.org
  22. coerce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. coerce: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. coerce: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. coerce: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. coerce: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. coerce: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coerce: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coerce: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. COERCE: Acronym Finder
  2. coerce: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coerce: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See coerced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
verb:  (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.

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