coercion

  1. Noun.  (context, not countable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
  2. Noun.  (context, legal) 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.
  3. Noun.  (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
  4. Noun.  (context, computing) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.

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