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Usually means: Coercion causing someone to act.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
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duress : Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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duress : Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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duress : Online Etymology Dictionary
duress : Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Duress (contract law) , Duress (disambiguation) , Duress (film) , Duress : Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Duress : Online Plain Text English Dictionary
duress : Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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Duress : AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
duress : Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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duress : Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Business (14 matching dictionaries)
duress : Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
duress : Webster's New World Law Dictionary
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THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
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Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
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Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
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▸ noun : (obsolete) Harsh treatment.
▸ noun : Constraint by threat.
▸ noun : (law) Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.
▸ verb : To put under duress; to pressure.
angariation ,
pressurage ,
durance ,
gripe ,
tortion ,
punition ,
imposement ,
tormentry ,
afforciament ,
dehortation ,
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economic ,
extreme ,
such ,
great ,
physical ,
emotional ,
financial ,
severe ,
considerable ,
mental ,
political
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