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Indonesian
Etymology
From English coercion (regularisation from English -tion into Indonesian -si via Dutch -tie), from Old French cohercion, from Latin coercitiō (“magisterial coercion”), from coercere, past participle coercitus (“to restrain, coerce”), from cum (“with”) + arceō (“to shut in, enclose”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ko‧èr‧si
Noun
koersi (first-person possessive koersiku, second-person possessive koersimu, third-person possessive koersinya)
- (communication, sociology) coercion:
- actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
- 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.
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