Coercion vs. Blackmail — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Coercion and Blackmail
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Coercion
Coercion () is compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner by use of threats, including propaganda or force. It involves a set of various types of forceful actions that violate the free will of an individual to induce a desired response, for example: a bully demanding lunch money from a student or the student gets beaten.
Blackmail
The extortion of money or favours by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.
Coercion
The act or practice of coercing.
Blackmail
(archaic) A form of protection money (or corn, cattle, etc.) anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to the allies of robbers in order to be spared from pillage.
Coercion
Power or ability to coerce.
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Blackmail
Blackmail is an act of coercion using the threat of revealing or publicizing either substantially true or false information about a person or people unless certain demands are met. It is often damaging information, and may be revealed to family members or associates rather than to the general public.
Coercion
(uncountable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
Blackmail
The action, treated as a criminal offence, of demanding money from someone in return for not revealing compromising information which one has about them
She recounted the blackmail threats
They were acquitted of charges of blackmail
Coercion
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.
Blackmail
Demand money from (someone) in return for not revealing compromising information about them
They use this fact to blackmail him, trying to force him to vote for their candidate
Coercion
(countable) A specific instance of coercing.
Blackmail
Extortion of money or something else of value from a person by the threat of exposing a criminal act or discreditable information.
Coercion
Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
Blackmail
Something of value, especially money, extorted in this manner
Refused to pay blackmail.
Coercion
The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
Blackmail
Tribute formerly paid to freebooters along the Scottish border for protection from pillage.
Coercion
The act or process of coercing.
Blackmail
Black rent, or rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver.
Coercion
The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion.
Blackmail
Compromising material that can be used to extort someone, dirt.
Coercion
The act of compelling by force of authority
Blackmail
(transitive) To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.
He blackmailed a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.
Coercion
Using force to cause something;
Though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game
They didn`t have to use coercion
Blackmail
(Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.
Blackmail
A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage.
Blackmail
Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.
Blackmail
Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver.
Blackmail
To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.
Blackmail
Extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
Blackmail
Exert pressure on someone through threats
Blackmail
Obtain through threats
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