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coercive

/koh-ur-siv/US // koʊˈɜr sɪv //

胁迫性,胁迫性的,强制,强迫性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : serving or tending to coerce.

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Examples

  • Beyond that, she said she is opposed to coercive approaches to masking.

  • The court also rejected the claim that this was human experimentation or coercive.

  • These laborers toiled under coercive, low-paying contracts, and discriminatory laws.

  • Such reports do not mask the coercive nature of government programs.

  • Vaccination incentives raise ethical issues The EEOC has said incentives can’t be deemed “coercive” but they haven’t actually capped them or stated explicitly what constitutes coercive.

  • The same goes for forced or coercive sterilization of women with disabilities, which is more common than people realize.

  • Meaning, one was left to discern, that religion is self-evidently a coercive force for ill.

  • Earnest questions are raised over the coercive nature of police interrogations.

  • In some ways it was more coercive than normal political influence.

  • But these challenges pale in comparison to a coercive and centralized system that is vulnerable to abuse.

  • But for the most part property, contract and the coercive state were fundamental assumptions with the classicists.

  • John Randolph, a sick man at the time, traveled throughout the country denouncing Jackson's coercive attitude.

  • 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.

  • However, he explained more fully the meaning of "coercive and arbitrary" action.

  • Had he been less blunt or coercive, had he employed a more honeyed appeal, she would not have felt so moved in his behalf.