Coerce
verb
To make someone do something by using force or threats.
The gang tried to coerce him into stealing the car.
Often appears as...
- coerce into
- coerce out of
verb
To obtain something by using threats or force.
The company has been accused of coercing workers into signing contracts against their will.
Often appears as...
- coerce into signing
- coerce into agreement
Usage tips
Business, Academic
verb
To pressure a person to behave in a certain way by use of threats, intimidation, or force.
The Court found that the company had attempted to coerce the employees into making admissions of guilt.
Often appears as...
- coerce into admission
- coerce into confession
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Legal, Academic
verb
To make someone do something by using force or threats.
The gang tried to coerce him into stealing the car.
Often appears as...
- coerce into
- coerce out of
verb
To obtain something by using threats or force.
The company has been accused of coercing workers into signing contracts against their will.
Often appears as...
- coerce into signing
- coerce into agreement
Usage tips
Business, Academic
verb
To pressure a person to behave in a certain way by use of threats, intimidation, or force.
The Court found that the company had attempted to coerce the employees into making admissions of guilt.
Often appears as...
- coerce into admission
- coerce into confession
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Legal, Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Negative Connotation
Coerce usually implies something negative and against someone's will.
The kidnapper tried to coerce her into revealing the code.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Impact
Using 'coerce' suggests the victim felt stressed or threatened.
She felt coerced into agreeing because of his aggressive tone.
Pro Tip 1/2Negative Connotation
Coerce usually implies something negative and against someone's will.
The kidnapper tried to coerce her into revealing the code.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Impact
Using 'coerce' suggests the victim felt stressed or threatened.
She felt coerced into agreeing because of his aggressive tone.
Pro Tip 1/2Negative Connotation
Coerce usually implies something negative and against someone's will.
The kidnapper tried to coerce her into revealing the code.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Impact
Using 'coerce' suggests the victim felt stressed or threatened.
She felt coerced into agreeing because of his aggressive tone.
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Storytellers Summit Day...
important learning phase for them to watch how the adults move and and learn to hunt these animals so this one for a while and then they took a nap they slept for about seven hours on and off I did my best to get some rest as well and then they're on again and what they are are coercing predators is what wolves
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How teachers can help...
is because he doesn't agree with my definition of justice. Fair enough. Maybe he and I don't see eye to eye, politically. But here's the our aim is to encourage students to articulate their own opinions, not to coerce them into agreeing with us, so it actually doesn't matter if he and I agree.
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How do we reason for a...
you're like most folks you'd probably hesitate and rightly so there's something wrong and well deeply wrong about trying to get other people to go think your way just by manipulating them or coercing we want to convince our political opponents we won't but we want
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How I help free innocent...
The only people who knew it were police and prosecutors. We knew what really happened; someone told them to say this. We don't exactly know who, which person did, but any rate, the confession was coerced, we determined. We then went back and did forensics
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3 ways businesses can...
I get it, I understand why people are confused. So, to be clear, the people that I'm talking about do not choose this life. They're forced, defrauded or coerced. That's actually the legal definition for human trafficking under federal law, for adults.
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How isolation fuels...
unless they're prepared for their experiments not to work for the next two years. I eventually did figure it out. So, my experiments were exploring how miswiring in the striatum relates to compulsive behaviors. Meaning, behaviors that are coerced
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Marisa Fick-Jordan: The...
Soon we had outgrown the scrap yards, what they could provide, so we coerced a wire manufacturer to help us, and not only to supply the materials on bobbins, but to produce to our color specifications. At the same time, I was thinking, well,
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How the Suez Canal...
put an end to the coerced Egyptian labor, but he still pressed forward with construction. Foreign workers from all over Europe and the Middle East labored alongside dredgers and bucket excavators to remove 74 million cubic meters of dirt.
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What will a future...
In "Brave New World," he imagines a society where technologies that we created originally for freedom end up coercing us. However, in the book, he also offers us a way out of that society, similar to the path
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How porn changes the way...
require that sex education be taught in schools, including how to prevent coerced sex. And less than half of those states require that the information presented be medically accurate.
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Storytellers Summit Day...
important learning phase for them to watch how the adults move and and learn to hunt these animals so this one for a while and then they took a nap they slept for about seven hours on and off I did my best to get some rest as well and then they're on again and what they are are coercing predators is what wolves
Video examples
How teachers can help...
is because he doesn't agree with my definition of justice. Fair enough. Maybe he and I don't see eye to eye, politically. But here's the our aim is to encourage students to articulate their own opinions, not to coerce them into agreeing with us, so it actually doesn't matter if he and I agree.
Video examples
How do we reason for a...
you're like most folks you'd probably hesitate and rightly so there's something wrong and well deeply wrong about trying to get other people to go think your way just by manipulating them or coercing we want to convince our political opponents we won't but we want
Video examples
How I help free innocent...
The only people who knew it were police and prosecutors. We knew what really happened; someone told them to say this. We don't exactly know who, which person did, but any rate, the confession was coerced, we determined. We then went back and did forensics
Video examples
3 ways businesses can...
I get it, I understand why people are confused. So, to be clear, the people that I'm talking about do not choose this life. They're forced, defrauded or coerced. That's actually the legal definition for human trafficking under federal law, for adults.
Video examples
How isolation fuels...
unless they're prepared for their experiments not to work for the next two years. I eventually did figure it out. So, my experiments were exploring how miswiring in the striatum relates to compulsive behaviors. Meaning, behaviors that are coerced
Video examples
Marisa Fick-Jordan: The...
Soon we had outgrown the scrap yards, what they could provide, so we coerced a wire manufacturer to help us, and not only to supply the materials on bobbins, but to produce to our color specifications. At the same time, I was thinking, well,
Video examples
How the Suez Canal...
put an end to the coerced Egyptian labor, but he still pressed forward with construction. Foreign workers from all over Europe and the Middle East labored alongside dredgers and bucket excavators to remove 74 million cubic meters of dirt.
Video examples
What will a future...
In "Brave New World," he imagines a society where technologies that we created originally for freedom end up coercing us. However, in the book, he also offers us a way out of that society, similar to the path
Video examples
How porn changes the way...
require that sex education be taught in schools, including how to prevent coerced sex. And less than half of those states require that the information presented be medically accurate.
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Quote examples
James Allen
British Author
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
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Kent Nerburn
American Author
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.
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Lysander Spooner
American Philosopher
One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it coerces more or less persons to support it, against their will.
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John Polanyi
Hungarian Scientist
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
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Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman
Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
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Jeff Duncan
American Politician
Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That's not just my belief; it's federal law.
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Joshua Roman
American Musician
My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.
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Jung Kyung-ho
Running on my will and running because of coercing is different.
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Camille Paglia
American Author
Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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Seamus Heaney
Irish Poet
One doesn't want one's identity coerced.
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James Allen
British Author
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Quote examples
Kent Nerburn
American Author
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.
Quote examples
Lysander Spooner
American Philosopher
One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it coerces more or less persons to support it, against their will.
Quote examples
John Polanyi
Hungarian Scientist
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
Quote examples
Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman
Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
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Jeff Duncan
American Politician
Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That's not just my belief; it's federal law.
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Joshua Roman
American Musician
My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.
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Jung Kyung-ho
Running on my will and running because of coercing is different.
Quote examples
Camille Paglia
American Author
Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
Quote examples
Seamus Heaney
Irish Poet
One doesn't want one's identity coerced.
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