force majeure

• POS: Noun Phrase
• HYPHEN: force ma=jeure

OXFORD DICTIONARY

force majeure, n.
1 irresistible compulsion or coercion.
2 an unforeseeable course of events excusing a person from the fulfilment of a contract.

Etymology

F, = superior strength

THESAURUS

force majeure

act of God, amperage, armipotence, authority, beef, black power, brute force, certainty, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, dint, drive, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, energy, fate, fatefulness, flower power, force, forcefulness, full blast, full force, indefeasibility, ineluctability, inescapableness, inevasibleness, inevitability, inevitable accident, inevitableness, inexorability, inflexibility, influence, irrevocability, main force, main strength, mana, might, might and main, mightiness, moxie, muscle power, necessity, pizzazz, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, predetermination, prepotency, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, relentlessness, sinew, steam, strength, strong arm, superiority, superpower, sureness, unavoidable casualty, unavoidableness, uncontrollability, undeflectability, unpreventability, unyieldingness, validity, vehemence, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vis major, vitality, wattage, weight

ROGET THESAURUS

force majeure

Compulsion

N compulsion, coercion, coaction, constraint, duress, enforcement, press, conscription, force, brute force, main force, physical force, the sword, ultima ratio, club law, lynch law, mob law, arguementum baculinum, le droit du plus fort, martial law, restraint, necessity, force majeure, Hobson's choice, compelling, coercive, coactive, inexorable, compulsory, compulsatory, obligatory, stringent, peremptory, forcible, not to be trifled with, irresistible, compelled, fain to, by force, by force of arms, on compulsion, perforce, vi et armis, under the lash, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet, forcibly, by a strong arm, under protest, in spite of one's teeth, against one's will, nolens volens, by stress of circumstances, by stress of weather, under press of, de rigueur, with a gun to one's head, I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.