[U] (formal) the action of making sb do sth that they do not want to do, using force or threatening to use force:
He claimed he had only acted under coercion.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for coercion is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is coercion a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, coercion is tagged as noun.
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