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Need help with finding alternative word from "create"

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  • 28-09-2011 4:52pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭


    Hi,

    This may seem like a silly question, but I am struggling to find an alternative word which has a similar meaning to "create" but in a forceful way.....

    To give you an everyday example, we can say that we 'create' business. A tax office may be considered a business. However, as a public citizen, I don't want to 'create' business with the tax office, but I 'have to' (forced through regulation). This may be described as __________ business.

    Fill in the blank. :confused:

    I would be grateful if you have any suggestion on this as I need to examine alternative words please.

    Many thanks in advance!!


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  • Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    actualize, author, beget, bring into being, bring into existence, bring to pass, build, cause to be, coin, compose, conceive, concoct, constitute, construct, contrive, design, devise, discover, dream up, effect, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, father, forge, form, formulate, found, generate, give birth to, give life to, hatch, imagine, initiate, institute, invent, invest, make, occasion, organize, originate, parent, perform, plan, procreate, produce, rear, set up, shape, sire, spawn, start

    http://thesaurus.com/browse/create


  • Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭Who Knows?


    Hi Mark,

    Yes, I checked that source before I posted here and none seem to fit. Any ideas yourself besides online material?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,485 ✭✭✭✭Ickle Magoo


    Could it be described as the taxes propagating business for the tax office...or tax offices deal in compulsory business...?


  • Registered Users Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    compelled creation of business? (edit got mixed up with impel :rolleyes: :o )
    or enforced?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


    Involuntary business.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Mongarra


    I wonder would "compelled" work?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Kadongy


    raped.

    forced to create = raped


  • Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭Who Knows?


    I don't think these work, for example, if I create, it implies a positive sense of something being developed/constructed...?

    If I have to create, forced almost (but force is too strong), compelled, how would you use this in the sense that... "Within this service we are [together compelled] to submit tax...bla bla....

    Is co-compelled a word?

    Or maybe co-impelled?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,196 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Inveigled?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,485 ✭✭✭✭Ickle Magoo


    obligated?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Who Knows? wrote: »
    I don't think these work, for example, if I create, it implies a positive sense of something being developed/constructed...?

    If I have to create, forced almost (but force is too strong), compelled, how would you use this in the sense that... "Within this service we are [together compelled] to submit tax...bla bla....

    Is co-compelled a word?

    Or maybe co-impelled?

    we are compelled is fine
    or since it's tax, required, we are required


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭amen


    compulsary


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Obliged, bound? Compelled works for me


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭Jess16


    Inciting -the tax office is inciting business and you are subsequently required to pay tax


  • Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Enforced?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭me-skywalker


    Who Knows? wrote: »
    Hi,

    However, as a public citizen, I don't want to 'create' business with the tax office, but I 'have to' (forced through regulation). This may be described as __________ business.

    Yes you do want to, otherwise you will be breaking the law. You don't want to create a situation for yourself where you are fined or jailed for not adhering to your legal obligations as a citizen of a country.

    :cool:


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    coerced, extorted, conscripted.

    In future, if you have a word that not quite right, run it through the thesaurus, if the results are close but still not quite it, run them through the thesaurus. Youll find that inspiriation will strike as you run through alternatives, your brain may suddenly go 'ping!' and come up with the right word.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    Statuary


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    Having problems editing on my phone - should read Statutory


  • Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭ThePinkCage


    Initiating?


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    You comply with regulations, if that's any help to you.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5 asper


    forced through regulation - legally obligated / obligatory

    Your question confused me a little though
    to create a business = to form something
    to create business = to enable something

    Is it possible the idea is "to do business with"?


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