Usually means: Coercion causing someone to act.
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  1. duress: Merriam-Webster
  2. duress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. duress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. duress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. duress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. duress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. duress: Infoplease Dictionary
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  13. duress: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. duress: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Duress (contract law), Duress (disambiguation), Duress (film), Duress: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Duress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. duress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. duress: Rhymezone
  19. Duress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. duress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  22. duress: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  24. duress: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. duress: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. duress: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. duress: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
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  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
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  12. duress: Legal dictionary
  13. duress: Financial dictionary
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. duress: Encyclopedia

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  2. duress: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) Harsh treatment.
noun:  Constraint by threat.
noun:  (law) Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.
verb:  To put under duress; to pressure.

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