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coercive /kəʊˈəːsɪv /adjectiveRelating to or using force or threats: coercive measures...- The Commonwealth has no military force, or coercive power apart from suspension and expulsion.
- Welfare recipients are to face new coercive measures to force them into workfare or to accept cheap labor jobs.
- He is the leading advocate of the superiority of voluntary or spontaneous forces over coercive ones.
Derivatives coercively adverb ...- If it becomes very powerful, we're going to find that it may use its power either directly or coercively.
- There are only two ways of getting what you want from others: voluntarily or coercively.
- These technologies can be used coercively in a way polygraphs, for example, can't.
coerciveness /kəʊˈəːsɪvnəs / noun ...- Like laugh tracks, they cue our emotional responses, but they also disguise their coerciveness by making us feel included.
- Coerciveness has long been used for social control in rituals such as union blackballing, college hazing, excommunication and corporal punishment.
- Essentially, these are influence tools of differing coerciveness.
Rhymes cursive, excursive, subversive |