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noncoercive

noncoercive adjective: not coercive; free of coercion.

Adjective

noncoercive (not comparable)

  1. Not coercive; free of coercion
    • Mr. Obama signed executive orders […] requiring all interrogations to follow the noncoercive methods of the Army Field Manual.2009 January 23, Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti, Helene Cooper, “Obama Reverses Key Bush Security Policies”, in New York Times

Origin of noncoercive

From non- + coercive.

Words formed from noncoercive

Questions about noncoercive

What does noncoercive mean?
Noncoercive means not coercive; free of coercion.
What part of speech is noncoercive?
Noncoercive is an adjective.

Words near noncoercive in the dictionary

  1. noncoders
  2. noncodified
  3. noncoding
  4. noncoerced
  5. noncoercion
  6. noncoercive
  7. noncoercively
  8. noncoexistence
  9. noncoexpressed
  10. noncoffee
  11. noncognate

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