duress

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I'm sad to say, I'm not sure I would have endured so much duress for so little reward.

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compulsory force or threat; "confessed under duress"

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noun

compulsory force or threat; "confessed under duress"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for duress.

noun

compulsory force or threat; "confessed under duress"

Example sentences

I'm sad to say, I'm not sure I would have endured so much duress for so little reward.

How are employment contracts for 6-figure jobs "under duress"?

I'm surprised that they didn't include a motion to declare the contract invalid on the grounds of duress.

It was signed under duress and only benefited one party.

In most circumstances there's no duress since a patient can visit a different physician.

This all under duress of spending over a third more years in prison than he had lived to date for a crime roughly on par with running black squares off the school printers.

I'm not aware of any precedent for a threat to withhold medical care being considered duress, but it certainly seems to satisfy the "no true meeting of the minds" test.

I think he may be hinting that he does not hold the key to the information, perhaps multiple keys are required, or the nature of the key is such that it cannot be reproduced under duress, etc etc.

You would forgive Google for spending millions of dollars over the last decade to work harder than virtually any other tech company on the Internet to resist NSA surveillance, thanklessly and quietly, or, when not quietly, under the duress of thousands of shrill, under-informed detractors?