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The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.
Henry Hazlitt

Meaning of "coercive" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COERCIVE

coercive  [kəʊˈɜːsɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COERCIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Coercive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES COERCIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Coercion

Coercion /koʊˈɜrʃən/ is the practice of forcing another party to act in an involuntary manner by use of intimidation or threats or some other form of pressure or force. It involves a set of various types of forceful actions that violate the free will of an individual to induce a desired response, usually having a strict choice or option against a person in such a way a victim cannot escape, for example: a bully demanding lunch money to a student or the student gets beaten. These actions can include, but are not limited to, extortion, blackmail, torture, and threats to induce favors. In law, coercion is codified as a duress crime. Such actions are used as leverage, to force the victim to act in a way contrary to their own interests. Coercion may involve the actual infliction of physical pain/injury or psychological harm in order to enhance the credibility of a threat. The threat of further harm may lead to the cooperation or obedience of the person being coerced. All forms of government are based upon and function off of coercion.

Definition of coercive in the English dictionary

The definition of coercive in the dictionary is designed to force people to do something.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COERCIVE


aspersive
əˈspɜːsɪv
aversive
əˈvɜːsɪv
cursive
ˈkɜːsɪv
decursive
dɪˈkɜːsɪv
detersive
dɪˈtɜːsɪv
discursive
dɪˈskɜːsɪv
dispersive
dɪˈspɜːsɪv
excursive
ɪkˈskɜːsɪv
extraversive
ˌɛkstrəˈvɜːsɪv
extroversive
ˌɛkstrəˈvɜːsɪv
immersive
ɪˈmɜːsɪv
incursive
ɪnˈkɜːsɪv
inversive
ɪnˈvɜːsɪv
noncoercive
ˌnɒnkəʊˈɜːsɪv
nondispersive
ˌnɒndɪˈspɜːsɪv
perversive
pəˈvɜːsɪv
precursive
priːˈkɜːsɪv
recursive
rɪˈkɜːsɪv
subversive
səbˈvɜːsɪv
uncoercive
ˌʌnkəʊˈɜːsɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COERCIVE

coequally
coequalness
coequate
coerce
coercer
coercible
coercibly
coercimeter
coercion
coercionist
coercive force
coercively
coerciveness
coercivity
coerect
coesite
coessential
coessentiality
coessentially
coessentialness

WORDS THAT END LIKE COERCIVE

active
alive
alternative
archive
arrive
automotive
competitive
comprehensive
conducive
cooperative
creative
crescive
drive
effective
embracive
enhancive
evincive
internecive
seducive
subsecive

Synonyms and antonyms of coercive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «coercive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COERCIVE

Find out the translation of coercive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of coercive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «coercive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

强制的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

coactivo
570 millions of speakers

English

coercive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बलपूर्वक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قسرية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

принудительная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

coercivo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাধ্যকারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

coercitif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Memaksa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zwangs-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

強制的な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

강압적인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Coercive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cưỡng chế
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிர்ப்பந்தப்படுத்தப்படும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दंडात्मक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zorlayıcı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

coercitivo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przymusu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

примусова
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

coercitiv
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καταναγκασμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dwang
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tvångs
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tvangsmulkt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of coercive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COERCIVE»

The term «coercive» is quite widely used and occupies the 48.671 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COERCIVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about coercive

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10 QUOTES WITH «COERCIVE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word coercive.
1
Aldrich Ames
Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.
2
Bob Beauprez
After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.
3
John Bates Clark
The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.
4
Wesley Clark
In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.
5
Bernadine Dohrn
I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
6
Henry Hazlitt
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.
7
Robert Jackson
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
8
Jane Mayer
Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.
9
Grover Norquist
The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat.
10
David Novak
Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COERCIVE»

Discover the use of coercive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to coercive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Coercive Control:How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life
But this is the first book to show that most abused women who seek help do so because their rights and liberties have been jeopardized, not because they have been injured.
Evan Stark, 2007
2
Forceful Persuasion: Coercive Diplomacy as an Alternative to War
George examines seven cases--from Pearl Harbor to the Persian Gulf--in which the United States has used coercive diplomacy in the past half-century.
Alexander L. George, 1991
3
Coercive Cooperation: Explaining Multilateral Economic Sanctions
To analyze this process, Lisa Martin uses a novel methodology combining game-theoretic models, statistical analysis, and case studies.
Lisa L. Martin, 1993
4
Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism
Argues that laws that enforce what is good for the individual's well-being, or hinder what is bad, are morally justified.
Sarah Conly, 2012
5
Democracy and Coercive Diplomacy
This book, first published in 2001, argues that political competition between government and opposition parties influences threats in international crises.
Kenneth A. Schultz, 2001
6
The United States and Coercive Diplomacy
"As Robert Art makes clear in a groundbreaking conclusion, those results have been mixed at best. Art dissects the uneven performance of coercive diplomacy and explains why it has sometimes worked and why it has more often failed.
Robert J. Art, Patrick M. Cronin, 2003
7
Coercive Reconciliation: Stabilise, Normalise, Exit ...
This book is an urgent critical response to the government's actions.
Jon C. Altman, Melinda Hinkson, 2007
8
Coercive Power in Social Exchange
Exchange theorists traditionally exclude punishment and coercion from their analyses; but Molm examines whether they can be included.
Linda D. Molm, 1997
9
Worse Than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of ...
Worse Than a Monolith demonstrates that when states are engaged in coercive diplomacy--combining threats and assurances to influence the behavior of real or potential adversaries--divisions, rivalries, and lack of coordination within the ...
Thomas J. Christensen, 2011
10
Air Power as a Coercive Instrument
Coercion--the use of threatened force to induce an adversary to change its behavior--is a critical function of the U.S. military.
Daniel Byman, John G. McGinn, Keith Crane, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COERCIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term coercive is used in the context of the following news items.
1
HC restrains govt from taking coercive steps against 3 tobacco firms
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today restrained till July 16 the city government from taking any coercive action against three tobacco ... «ET Retail, Jul 15»
2
Bill Cosby Drug Admission “A Game Changer”, Janice Dickinson's …
... and other coercive methods to have sex with unsuspecting women. The deposition was from a sexual assault case brought against Cosby by ... «Deadline, Jul 15»
3
How Yelp Is Giving You Bad Advice
Misleading reviews aren't as egregious as shady or coercive business practices—but try remembering that when you arrive somewhere hungry ... «CityLab, Jul 15»
4
Stop labelling unemployment as a psychological disorder
Bogus constructs like "psychological resistance to work" and "cultures of worklessness" are used to legitimise coercive regimes that stigmatise ... «New Scientist, Jul 15»
5
Forced Marriages: A Case of 'Happily Never After'
Forced marriage can sometimes take on a less obvious, more coercive form. A more recent example is that of Mariam, a sixth grader whose ... «Christian Post, Jul 15»
6
Protect young people in group homes: Editorial
Could staff have handled disruptive behaviour in less coercive ways? It's impossible to know. The stories of these two young people are among ... «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
7
Israeli MPs vote for bid to force-feed Palestinian inmates
“Medical professionals should never be used as instruments to inflict harmful and coercive measures on detainees and to violate their human ... «Press TV, Jul 15»
8
Shah Panel Holds Meeting With Taxmen
... recommend to the Government to direct the Revenue authorities to stay the demand raised on FIIs/FPIs and not to take any coercive action, ... «NDTV, Jul 15»
9
How Canada Hangs Prostitutes Out to Dry
This becomes apparent as they frame all prostitution as coercive and parrot the unbacked claim that Canadians enter the industry on average ... «PanAm Post, Jul 15»
10
Faculty declares opposition to proposals for statutory jury directions …
In essence, if the policy aim is to criminalise abusive behaviours that are underpinned by coercive control, this will be extremely difficult to ... «Scottish Legal News, Jul 15»

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