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What is a coercer?

What is a coercer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who coerces.
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Others identify coercion with the making of threats, but seek to distinguish threats from offers in ways that avoid reference to a baseline, and instead look at the qualities of the coercer and his activities.
If he had been lured or coerced from his house, all traces of the coercer were now apparently obliterated.
In his time Piggott was a famously vigorous coercer of horses but was also known for his artistry and his super-human judgment of pace, which looked bred into him through a long ancestry of jockeys and trainers.
Increasingly government acted not only as coercer and controller of private action but also as provider, instructor, propagator, benefactor, landlord, employer, and funder.
If the Commission, after having granted conditional immunity ultimately finds that the immunity applicant has acted as a coercer, it will withhold immunity.
Compellence is the use of threats to make a target stop an action it has already undertaken, or to take an action that the coercer wants.

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