COERCE


Meaning of COERCE in English

verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Officials coerced peasants into voting for the government candidates.

Ray withdrew his confession, saying that he had been coerced by the police.

The company paid the workers the minimum rate of $4.86 an hour, but coerced some to give back half their pay in cash.

The mine owners coerced the workers into going back to work, by threatening to close down the mines completely.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And yet woman is coerced through submission to the Symbolic order to abandon feminine desire and a peculiarly feminine relation to origins.

Both firms and workers are being coerced by the same forcemajeure of insufficient demand in the commodity market.

In many cases, young women are coerced or bribed into relationships with older men.

She hadn't coerced him in any way.

They may assert, for instance, that crucial evidence was covered up or a confession was coerced.

This gives the workforce both a much greater capacity to coerce management and a consciousness of its collective power, claims Mallet.

Three days later, Ray asked to withdraw his plea, claiming it had been coerced.

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