Usually means: Pressure to make someone comply.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word coercion:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. coercion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. coercion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coercion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coercion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. coercion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Coercion, coercion: Wordnik
  7. coercion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. coercion: Wiktionary
  9. coercion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. coercion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. coercion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. coercion: Dictionary.com
  13. coercion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Coercion (disambiguation), Coercion (linguistics), Coercion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Coercion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. coercion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. coercion: Rhymezone
  18. Coercion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. coercion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. coercion: Free Dictionary
  21. coercion: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. coercion: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. coercion: Mnemonic Dictionary

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. coercion: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Coercion: Inflation Glossary
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  7. coercion: Legal dictionary
  8. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. coercion: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Coercion (disambiguation), coercion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. coercion: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. coercion: Political
  2. coercion: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

(Note: See coercions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
noun:  (programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
noun:  (linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.

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