how to pronounce coerce

/kəʊˈɜːs/

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coerce is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of coerce in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… can coerce humans into committing unholy …”

meanings of coerce

verb:

To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.

coerce frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word coerce occurs in english on average 0.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics coerce can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that coerce can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

3) people, society, and culture;