coerce
/koh-URSS/verbto persuade by force or threats
“No employee should be coerced into unpaid overtime.”
- Synonyms
- compel, force, pressure
- Antonyms
- persuade, entice
- Memory hook
- co + arcere (confine): boxed into agreement.
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