coercion

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• Received-Pronunciation: /kəʊˈɜːʃən/
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• General-American: /koʊˈɝʒən/
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• General-American: /koʊˈɝʃən/
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• Australian: /kəʉˈɜːʃən/
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• New-Zealand: /kɐʉˈøːʃən/
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• CMU ARPABET: K OW0 ER1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English cohercioun, from Old French cohercion, from Latin coërcitiō (“magisterial coercion”), from past participle coercitus of coërceō (“to restrain, coerce”), from co- (“with”) + arceō (“to shut in, enclose”); see coerce.

108 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: shtrëngim — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Arabic: قَهْر (qahr) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Arabic: قَسْر (qasr) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Arabic: غَصْب (ḡaṣb) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Arabic: عَنْت (ʕant) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Arabic: دَفْع (dafʕ) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Arabic: جَبْر (jabr) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Arabic: اِضْطِرَار (iḍṭirār) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Arabic: إِلْزَام (ʔilzām) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Arabic: إِكْرَاه (ʔikrāh) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Arabic: إِرْغَام (ʔirḡām) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Arabic: إِجْبَار (ʔijbār) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Armenian: հարկադրում (harkadrum) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Armenian: բռնադատում (bṙnadatum) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Belarusian: пры́мус (prýmus) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Bulgarian: принуда (prinuda) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Bulgarian: насилие (nasilie) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Catalan: coerció — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Chinese Mandarin: 強迫 /强迫 (qiǎngpò) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Chinese Mandarin: 威迫 (wēipò) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Czech: donucení — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Danish: tvang — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Dutch: dwang — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Estonian: sundimine — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Estonian: sund — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Finnish: pakko — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Finnish: pakkokeino — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• French: coercition — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Galician: coerción — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Georgian: ძალდატანება (ʒaldaṭaneba) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• German: Zwang — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Greek: εξαναγκασμός (exanagkasmós) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Greek: καταπίεση (katapíesi) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Hebrew: כפייה (kfi'a) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Hindi: ज़ोर-जबरदस्ती (zor-jabardastī) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Hungarian: kényszer — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Indonesian: paksaan — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Italian: coercizione — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Japanese: 強制 (kyōsei) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Japanese: 威圧 (iatsu) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Japanese: 強迫 (kyōhaku) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Khmer: ការបង្ខិតបង្ខំ (kaa bɑŋkhət bɑŋkhɑm) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Khmer: ពលការ (pʊəl kaa) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Khmer: ការសង្កត់សង្កិន (kaa sɑŋkɑt sɑŋkən) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Korean: 강제 (gangje) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Korean: 강압 (gang'ap) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Latin: coactus — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Latvian: piespiešana — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Latvian: spiediens — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Lithuanian: prievarta — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Lithuanian: privertimas — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Macedonian: принуда (prinuda) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Māori: uruhanga — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Mongolian: албадлага (albadlaga) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Norwegian: tvang — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Occitan: coercicion — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Polish: przymus — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Portuguese: coação — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Portuguese: coerção — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Romanian: coerciție — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Russian: принужде́ние (prinuždénije) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Russian: наси́лие (nasílije) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Scottish Gaelic: ceannsachadh — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Serbo-Croatian: prisila — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Serbo-Croatian: prinuda — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Slovak: donútenie — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Slovak: prinútenie — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Slovene: prisila — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Spanish: coerción — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Swedish: betvingande — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Swedish: tvång — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Turkish: zorlama — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Ukrainian: при́мус (prýmus) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Vietnamese: sự ép buộc — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Yiddish: צוואַנג (tsvang) — actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person
• Arabic: إِكْرَاه (ʔikrāh) — use of force to compel
• Finnish: pakottaminen — use of force to compel
• Galician: coerción — use of force to compel
• German: Nötigung — use of force to compel
• Greek: εξαναγκασμός (exanagkasmós) — use of force to compel
• Hindi: प्रपीड़न (prapīṛan) — use of force to compel
• Hindi: ज़ोर-जबरदस्ती (zor-jabardastī) — use of force to compel
• Hungarian: kényszerítés — use of force to compel
• Khmer: ការបង្ខិតបង្ខំ (kaa bɑŋkhət bɑŋkhɑm) — use of force to compel
• Khmer: ពលការ (pʊəl kaa) — use of force to compel
• Khmer: ការសង្កត់សង្កិន (kaa sɑŋkɑt sɑŋkən) — use of force to compel
• Latin: coactus — use of force to compel
• Portuguese: coerção — use of force to compel
• Romanian: coercitare — use of force to compel
• Russian: принужде́ние (prinuždénije) — use of force to compel
• Scottish Gaelic: ceannsachadh — use of force to compel
• Serbo-Croatian: prisila — use of force to compel
• Turkish: cebir — use of force to compel
• Turkish: icbar — use of force to compel
• Catalan: coerció — instance of coercing
• Finnish: pakottaminen — instance of coercing
• Galician: coerción — instance of coercing
• Greek: εξαναγκασμός (exanagkasmós) — instance of coercing
• Hungarian: kényszerítés — instance of coercing
• Khmer: ការបង្ខិតបង្ខំ (kaa bɑŋkhət bɑŋkhɑm) — instance of coercing
• Khmer: ការសង្កត់សង្កិន (kaa sɑŋkɑt sɑŋkən) — instance of coercing
• Serbo-Croatian: prisila — instance of coercing
• Serbo-Croatian: prinuda — instance of coercing
• Esperanto: altipigo — computing: conversion of a value of one data type to another
• Finnish: pakottaminen — computing: conversion of a value of one data type to another
• French: coercition — computing: conversion of a value of one data type to another
• Hungarian: konverzió — computing: conversion of a value of one data type to another
• Russian: приведение (privedenije) — computing: conversion of a value of one data type to another