English Dictionary

coercion

IPA（発音記号）

/koʊˈɜːʃən/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.

日本語の意味

他者に対して、行動を強制するために用いられる実際の力、または脅しの手段。 / 強制、脅迫、強要といった、対象を無理やり何かをさせる行為やそのための手段。

The defendant's confession was clearly the result of coercion, not a voluntary admission.

被告の自白は明らかに任意の供述ではなく、力の行使や脅迫によるものだった。

意味（1）

(uncountable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.

One of the primary objectives of the foreign policy of the United States is the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion.

意味（2）

(law, uncountable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.

意味（3）

(countable) A specific instance of coercing.

意味（4）

(programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.

意味（5）

(linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.

But often the pieces of information do not fit together and have to be shifted in meaning to confirm with the rest of the sentence. These shifts are called coercion

coercions （ plural ）