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uruhi

1. (verb) (-a) to drive, force, enforce, impose, administer, implement, coerce, compel.

Ahakoa i pōtitia ia hei Mema Pāremata i te tau 1932, haere katoa ana tōna utu Pāremata ki te kaupapa Rātana, i raro i tētahi kawenata nā te Māngai tonu i uruhi (TTR 1998:218). / Even after his election to Parliament in 1932, he handed over all his parliamentary pay to the Rātana movement according to a covenant imposed by the Māngai.

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2. (noun) force, coercion.

He whai hua noa ake te whakakīkī i te uruhi (Milroy 2016). / Persuasion is better than force (Milroy 2016).

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