coerce
to persuade someone into doing something
TRANSLATION
coerce = jemanden dazu zwingen, etwas zu tun, jemanden nötigen --- GOOGLE INDEX coerce: approximately 1,400,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
US District Court Judge Christopher Droney's ruling issued Thursday said Larry Corbett's confession to police was made voluntarily and not COERCED.
(Wall Street Journal)
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Italy's antitrust authority closed a probe into whether Google COERCED local newspapers into posting stories on its news site, it said on Monday.
(www.moneycontrol.com)
(Wall Street Journal)
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Italy's antitrust authority closed a probe into whether Google COERCED local newspapers into posting stories on its news site, it said on Monday.
(www.moneycontrol.com)
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coerce
verb
- to persuade someone forcefully to do something which they are unwilling to do
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Winston Churchill was once informed by his butler that French President Charles de Gaulle wanted to speak with him on the telephone. Churchill, in the middle of eating a bowl of soup, refused to take the call. De Gaulle persisted however, and Churchill was eventually coerced into abandoning his meal.
When he returned to the table, his soup was cold but Churchill himself was simmering with rage. "Bloody de Gaulle! He had the impertinence to tell me that the French regard him as the reincarnation of Joan of Arc," he cried. "I found it necessary to remind him that we had to burn the first one!"
Etymology: from the Latin "coercere", to "control, restrain, shut up together." From com (together) + arcere (to enclose, confine, contain). There is no record of the word between the late 15th century and mid-17th century. Its reappearance is perhaps a back formation from coercion.
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SYNONYMS
compel, drive, force, impel, persuade, talk into
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"You can't coerce him into eating meat. He's a strict vegetarian."
verb
- to persuade someone forcefully to do something which they are unwilling to do
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Winston Churchill was once informed by his butler that French President Charles de Gaulle wanted to speak with him on the telephone. Churchill, in the middle of eating a bowl of soup, refused to take the call. De Gaulle persisted however, and Churchill was eventually coerced into abandoning his meal.
When he returned to the table, his soup was cold but Churchill himself was simmering with rage. "Bloody de Gaulle! He had the impertinence to tell me that the French regard him as the reincarnation of Joan of Arc," he cried. "I found it necessary to remind him that we had to burn the first one!"
Etymology: from the Latin "coercere", to "control, restrain, shut up together." From com (together) + arcere (to enclose, confine, contain). There is no record of the word between the late 15th century and mid-17th century. Its reappearance is perhaps a back formation from coercion.
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SYNONYMS
compel, drive, force, impel, persuade, talk into
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"You can't coerce him into eating meat. He's a strict vegetarian."
