coerce
pronunciation
How to pronounce coerce in British English:
UK [kəʊˈɜ:s]
How to pronounce coerce in American English:
US [koʊˈɜrs]
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- Verb:
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"
Word Origin
- coerce
- coerce: [17] The underlying etymological meaning of coerce is ‘restraining’ or ‘confining’. It comes from the Latin compound verb coercēre ‘constrain’, which was formed from the prefix co- ‘together’ and the verb arcēre ‘shut up, ward off’ (possibly a relative of Latin arca ‘chest, box’, from which English gets ark). An earlier, 15th-century, form of the English word was coherce, which came via Old French cohercier.=> ark
- coerce (v.)
- mid-15c., cohercen, from Middle French cohercer, from Latin coercere "to control, restrain, shut up together," from com- "together" (see co-) + arcere "to enclose, confine, contain, ward off," from PIE *ark- "to hold, contain, guard" (see arcane). Related: Coerced; coercing. No record of the word between late 15c. and mid-17c.; its reappearance 1650s is perhaps a back-formation from coercion.
Example
- 1. You cannot coerce someone into learning .
- 2. Trying to coerce a group of sovereign states to follow common rules is ultimately doomed .
- 3. And pyongyang revealed it could use a nuclear arsenal to coerce china .
- 4. But the most crucial is that government alone has the power to coerce .
- 5. And this is important : the buyers and sellers cannot coerce either the website or other sellers and buyers to enter into an exchange .