Vocabulary
Coercion
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the action or practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats
Urdu meaning
جبر، دباﺅ، زور
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- A local psychologist had `diagnosed` her defiance as `depression`, giving medical cover to parental coercion and captivity.
- For women, acts of violence including murder through karo kari, are frequently used as threats for attempts at extortion, land grabbing or coercion of any kind.
- But in cases where the violence is more systemic disappearances, sham trials, censorship, intimidation, political coercion there are breaking points, which usually manifest as mass uprisings.
- Without this kind of a consensus, any such effort to devolve power will not be easy and if pushed through coercion, it will last as long as its creators enjoy power.
- Coercion, intimidation, familial and community pressure, ecological destruction, as well as the brute power of the state, are all deployed in acquiring land and building private housing schemes.
Synonyms
force,constraint, compulsion, duress,enforcement, oppression, harassment
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