▸ noun: (uncountable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing. ▸ noun: (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. ▸ noun: (countable) A specific instance of coercing. ▸ noun: (programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type. ▸ noun: (linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context. ▸ noun: (libertarianism) The initiation or threat of conflict; aggression.
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