English-Dutch translations for coercion

• dwang
  Een fraaie vertoning: de liberale democratie die dwang steunt! Nice work: liberal democracy supporting coercion!
  Een te snelle dwang brengt altijd gevaren met zich mee. There are always dangers associated with coercion.
  De bedoeling was dat zij zouden worden bevrijd van dwang en achterlijkheid. It was the intention to free them from coercion and backwardness.

Definition of coercion

• Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing
• A specific instance of coercing
• The process by which the meaning of a or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical

Related words

• coercive
• coercible
• coercibleness
• coercivity
• type coercion