paksaan
Indonesian
editEtymology
edit- Semantic loan from Dutch dwang (“coercion”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpaksaan (first-person possessive paksaanku, second-person possessive paksaanmu, third-person possessive paksaannya)
- force, pressure
- coercion:
- actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
- (law) 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.
Further reading
edit- “paksaan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.