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Definition of "coaction" [co•ac•tion]

  • An impelling or restraining force; a compulsion. (noun)
  • Joint action. (noun)
  • Ecology Any of the reciprocal actions or effects, such as symbiosis, that can occur in a community. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "coaction" in a sentence
  • ""What we spoke of was strengthening our coaction.""
  • "COROLLARY Coaction only circumscribes the liberty of an agent, it does not destroy or take it away; and such circumscription is not made, except through the medium or intervention of the natural inclination; the natural inclination, therefore, is more opposed to liberty than coaction is."
  • "Whether the collation be free or necessary it must always be gratuitous, to avoid simony; free, that is without coaction; unconditional; public, so that it may be readily proved; and granted within six months from the date of vacancy."
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