Usually means: Forces someone to do something.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word coerces:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. coerces: Merriam-Webster
  2. coerces: Collins English Dictionary
  3. coerces: Vocabulary.com
  4. coerces: Wordnik
  5. coerces: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. coerces: Wiktionary
  7. coerces: Dictionary.com
  8. coerces: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. coerces: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. coerces: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. coerces: Legal dictionary

(Note: See coerce as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (coerce)

verb:  (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
verb:  (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
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