Coercion

noun

1. (not countable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
2. (not countable) 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.
3. A specific instance of coercing.
4. Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
5. The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.