Coercive

Word COERCIVE
Character 8
Hyphenation co er cive
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Coercive"

What do we mean by coercive?

Characterized by or inclined to coercion. adjective

Having power to coerce, as by law, authority, or force; restraining; constraining.

That which coerces; that which constrains or restrains. noun

Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain. adjective

The power or force which in iron or steel produces a slowness or difficulty in imparting magnetism to it, and also interposes an obstacle to the return of a bar to its natural state when active magnetism has ceased. It plainly depends on the molecular constitution of the metal. adjective

Displaying a tendency or intent to coerce. adjective

Serving or intended to coerce adjective

Displaying a tendency or intent to coerce

(of a function F) such that the ration of |F(x)| to x approaches infinity as x approaches infinity

Synonyms and Antonyms for Coercive

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The word "coercive" in example sentences

Among other things, they suggest that even now, under your government, there are what they call coercive measures by official agencies, including religious police organizations, that require Afghans to follow specific religious practices and require women to conform to stringent codes of dress, movement and behavior. ❋ Unknown (2003)

There's a report in the L.A. Times today that says one of the things the administration is looking at is what they describe as coercive inspections, which I guess means the inspectors would go back into Iraq but with military forces of some sort backing them up. ❋ Unknown (2002)

However, in practice such cases rarely are, so the government is considering whether the legal definition should be widened to expressly include what it calls "coercive control". ❋ Unknown (2011)

The women in this case to have what I call the coercive option; for I would not have it in the man's power to be a dog neither. ❋ Samuel Richardson (1725)

He's saying (if I read him correctly) that coercive/not-coercive is a false dichotomy and that even Libertopia will involve coercion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Lots of animals, including many primates, engage in coercive sex. ❋ Unknown (2010)

MCM: Lots of animals, including many primates, engage in coercive sex. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I don't understand how your view of freedom doesn't result in coercive situations, and to argue that kids can just switch schools when they have a teacher that is evangelizing to them is impractical on several counts, including that for many it's just not geographically possible. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"A conceivable alternative would be government rationing and the allocation of important goods or the setting of production schedules and other short-term coercive measures to replace market-based mechanisms in times of crisis." ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are plenty of non-legal norms that are more coercive in the common everyday sense of the word coercive than some legal norms. ❋ Lessig (2009)

The women in this case to have what I call the coercive option; for I would not have it in the man’s power to be a dog neither. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He added that if the interrogation policy memo did not contain coercive techniques, then it “wasn’t going to go very far.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Furthermore, the NSA engaged in coercive behavior in that the companies WERE MADE AWARE that if they didn’t cooperate they wouldn’t receive future (lucrative) classified contracts. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In contrast to the Pentagon’s new rules on detainee treatment, the bill would limit our definition of Common Article 3's terms by introducing a flexible, sliding scale that might allow certain coercive interrogation techniques under some circumstances, while forbidding them under others. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It is called the coercive power of the government. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While the Iraq War has thoroughly discredited the idea of coercive democratization advanced by the neo-conservatives and others in Bush's first term, both Republicans and Democrats have a strong strand of values in their orientations toward foreign policy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So-called coercive interrogation methods – including isolation – have been specially authorized for certain units in the military and the Central Intelligence Agency. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Throughout human history the law has been known as a coercive institution, enforcing its practical demands on its subjects by means of threats and violence. ❋ Marmor, Andrei (2007)

Rosenkranz commissioned Martin — a psychologist and director of the Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center in Albany, Ohio, where people are helped to recover from what Martin calls coercive persuasion — to do a study on Kashi after he petitioned for an annulment from his wife of 19 years on grounds he had been coerced into the union by Ma Jaya. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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