Antonyms for coercion
koʊˈɜr ʃənco·er·cion

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1. coercionnoun

   the act of compelling by force of authority

   Synonyms:
   compulsion

2. compulsion, coercionnoun

   using force to cause something to occur

   "though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"; "they didn't have to use coercion"

   Synonyms:
   irresistible impulse, obsession, compulsion

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1. coercionnoun

   Synonyms:
   compulsion, restraint, force, repression, constraint

How to use coercion in a sentence?

1. Tony Blinken:

   The US and China are very concerned by the PRC's provocative military activity near Taiwan, as The US and China said, the activity is destabilizing. It risks miscalculation and it has the potential to undermine regional peace and stability. So, The US and China strongly urge Beijing to cease its military, diplomatic and economic pressure and coercion directed at Taiwan.

2. Yun Sun:

   Every time Taiwan does anything that China does n’t like, the Chinese react with their own military coercion.

3. Randall Schriver:

   Taiwan was under extraordinary pressure and facing coercion, taiwan is not the only country in the Indo-Pacific that faces that. Other countries, as they prepare for their elections, will take great inspiration and heart for how Taiwan has stood that kind of pressure and carried forward with a very successful election.

4. Herbert Spencer:

   All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?

5. Joe Biden:

   This is vitally important, a vitally important choice, as America grapples with the deadly pandemic, the economic crisis, and the reckoning on race -- what it reveals the deep disparities that still exist in our country, and there should be no intimidation, no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda.

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