jawboningとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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jawboning

1. present participle and gerund of jawbone

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jawboning (usually uncountable, plural jawbonings)

1. Persistent persuasive talk, particularly (politics, economics) talk that includes implied threats of punitive action, such as tighter government regulation.

   Hypernym: persuasion

   Coordinate term: moral suasion

   • 1991, Terrence E. Cook, The Great Alternatives of Social Thought, page 194:

     Or the merely verbal pressure of jawbonings by prominent people may try to silence a certain point of view.

   • [2025 September 18, Bobby Allyn, “Legal experts say pulling Jimmy Kimmel from air may amount to illegal 'jawboning'”, in Television‎, NPR, retrieved 18 September 2025:

     It's shocking to Douek, because she is a close-watcher of what's known as "jawboning," when regulators or government officials pressure private actors, like a social media company or broadcast network, to stifle speech. The libertarian Cato Institute calls the practice "censorship by proxy."]