Coercion
noun
The act of making someone do something by using force or threats.
He was accused of using coercion to get the confession.
Often appears as...
- under coercion
- act of coercion
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Disapproving
noun
In law, using force or threats to make someone do something.
Coercion is a basic element in the crime of rape.
Often appears as...
- legal coercion
- coercion in law
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Formal, Disapproving
Legal
noun
In computing, makes a variable behave like a different data type.
Type coercion in JavaScript can lead to unexpected results.
Often appears as...
- type coercion
- coercion in computing
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Technical
noun
The act of making someone do something by using force or threats.
He was accused of using coercion to get the confession.
Often appears as...
- under coercion
- act of coercion
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
In law, using force or threats to make someone do something.
Coercion is a basic element in the crime of rape.
Often appears as...
- legal coercion
- coercion in law
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Legal
noun
In computing, makes a variable behave like a different data type.
Type coercion in JavaScript can lead to unexpected results.
Often appears as...
- type coercion
- coercion in computing
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Coercion usually implies a negative and forceful action, often considered morally wrong.
The workers felt coercion when they were forced to sign the agreement.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Force
Coercion doesn't always mean physical force but can include subtle forms like emotional pressure.
She experienced coercion when her peers pressured her to smoke.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Obvious
Coercion can happen in private and hard to prove situations, like behind closed doors.
He faced coercion to change his testimony, but nobody witnessed it.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Coercion usually implies a negative and forceful action, often considered morally wrong.
The workers felt coercion when they were forced to sign the agreement.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Force
Coercion doesn't always mean physical force but can include subtle forms like emotional pressure.
She experienced coercion when her peers pressured her to smoke.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Obvious
Coercion can happen in private and hard to prove situations, like behind closed doors.
He faced coercion to change his testimony, but nobody witnessed it.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Coercion usually implies a negative and forceful action, often considered morally wrong.
The workers felt coercion when they were forced to sign the agreement.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Force
Coercion doesn't always mean physical force but can include subtle forms like emotional pressure.
She experienced coercion when her peers pressured her to smoke.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Obvious
Coercion can happen in private and hard to prove situations, like behind closed doors.
He faced coercion to change his testimony, but nobody witnessed it.
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Is the world getting...
to any sentient creature with the power of reason and the urge to persist in its being, for it requires only the convictions that life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion,
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Paul Romer: Why the...
and our interest in trying to explore new ideas. Why is this not like colonialism? The thing that was bad about colonialism, and the thing which is residually bad in some of our aid programs, is that it involved elements of coercion and condescension.
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The lost art of...
matter a recipe for intolerance and coercion so better to shy away from to ignore the moral and the religious convictions that people bring the civic life it seems to me that our discussion reflects the opposite that a better way
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Charles Hazlewood:...
an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in. Now in the old days, conducting, music making, was less about trust and more, frankly, about coercion.
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Michael Sandel: The lost...
and for that matter, around the world. There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.
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How to rob a bank (from...
90 percent of appraisers reported that they had been subject to coercion from the lenders trying to get them to inflate an appraisal. In other words, both forms of fraud became absolutely endemic and normal,
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The real harm of the...
not through force or coercion or invasion, but by simply looking at all of the options available to us and choosing the ones that favor peace at the expense of war, instead of war at the expense of peace.
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Noy Thrupkaew: Human...
That is food and care and shelter. And somehow, these most essential workers are also among the world's most underpaid and exploited today. Human trafficking is the use of force, fraud or coercion
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Joseph Nye on global...
to get the outcomes you want without coercion or payment, is what I call soft power. And that soft power has been much neglected and much misunderstood, and yet it's tremendously important.
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Prison Nation PIPE National...
they are the people society fears most a world of violence and coercion gang wars and bloody riots it's an entire nation behind bars a prison nation with numbers
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Is the world getting...
to any sentient creature with the power of reason and the urge to persist in its being, for it requires only the convictions that life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion,
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Paul Romer: Why the...
and our interest in trying to explore new ideas. Why is this not like colonialism? The thing that was bad about colonialism, and the thing which is residually bad in some of our aid programs, is that it involved elements of coercion and condescension.
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The lost art of...
matter a recipe for intolerance and coercion so better to shy away from to ignore the moral and the religious convictions that people bring the civic life it seems to me that our discussion reflects the opposite that a better way
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Charles Hazlewood:...
an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in. Now in the old days, conducting, music making, was less about trust and more, frankly, about coercion.
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Michael Sandel: The lost...
and for that matter, around the world. There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.
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How to rob a bank (from...
90 percent of appraisers reported that they had been subject to coercion from the lenders trying to get them to inflate an appraisal. In other words, both forms of fraud became absolutely endemic and normal,
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The real harm of the...
not through force or coercion or invasion, but by simply looking at all of the options available to us and choosing the ones that favor peace at the expense of war, instead of war at the expense of peace.
Video examples
Noy Thrupkaew: Human...
That is food and care and shelter. And somehow, these most essential workers are also among the world's most underpaid and exploited today. Human trafficking is the use of force, fraud or coercion
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Joseph Nye on global...
to get the outcomes you want without coercion or payment, is what I call soft power. And that soft power has been much neglected and much misunderstood, and yet it's tremendously important.
Video examples
Prison Nation PIPE National...
they are the people society fears most a world of violence and coercion gang wars and bloody riots it's an entire nation behind bars a prison nation with numbers
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Bee Wilson
British Journalist
The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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B. F. Skinner
American Psychologist
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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Corliss Lamont
American Philosopher
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
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Reuven Rivlin
Israeli Politician
Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.
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Garrett Hardin
American Environmentalist
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
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Murray Rothbard
American Economist
The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.
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Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Mongolian Politician
All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.
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Robert McNamara
American Public Servant
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
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James A. Garfield
American President
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
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Bee Wilson
British Journalist
The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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B. F. Skinner
American Psychologist
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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Corliss Lamont
American Philosopher
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
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Reuven Rivlin
Israeli Politician
Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.
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Garrett Hardin
American Environmentalist
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
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Murray Rothbard
American Economist
The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.
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Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Mongolian Politician
All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.
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Robert McNamara
American Public Servant
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
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James A. Garfield
American President
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
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