"approach-forcing" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Coined by Ely Culbertson in the early 1930's to describe the bidding system that he invented.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1934, Literary Digest, volume 118, number 11, page 38",
          "text": "[…] the approach-forcing system and other less widely known systems offer a helping hand to the beginner […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1937 March, Silas Bent, “Should we abolish bridge? Yessir!”, in The Rotarian, page 10",
          "text": "My acquaintance with trick values, \"approach-forcing,\" the pitfalls of no-trump, the conventions and the various \"systems\" has come by word of mouth or by painful experience at the card table.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bidding system in which the responder does not support a partner's bid suit without 4 card support or 3 cards plus a Queen or higher, never passes an opening 1 bid while holding one and a half honor tricks or more, always responds with an indication of hand strength, and in which a 2 opener or jump bid is considered forcing to game. No Trump is used as a negative response when forced to bid."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(bridge) A bidding system in which the responder does not support a partner's bid suit without 4 card support or 3 cards plus a Queen or higher, never passes an opening 1 bid while holding one and a half honor tricks or more, always responds with an indication of hand strength, and in which a 2 opener or jump bid is considered forcing to game. No Trump is used as a negative response when forced to bid."
      ],
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        "uncountable"
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        "bridge",
        "games"
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        "Ely Culbertson"
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  "word": "approach-forcing"
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{
  "etymology_text": "Coined by Ely Culbertson in the early 1930's to describe the bidding system that he invented.",
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "approach-forcing (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Bridge"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1934, Literary Digest, volume 118, number 11, page 38",
          "text": "[…] the approach-forcing system and other less widely known systems offer a helping hand to the beginner […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1937 March, Silas Bent, “Should we abolish bridge? Yessir!”, in The Rotarian, page 10",
          "text": "My acquaintance with trick values, \"approach-forcing,\" the pitfalls of no-trump, the conventions and the various \"systems\" has come by word of mouth or by painful experience at the card table.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bidding system in which the responder does not support a partner's bid suit without 4 card support or 3 cards plus a Queen or higher, never passes an opening 1 bid while holding one and a half honor tricks or more, always responds with an indication of hand strength, and in which a 2 opener or jump bid is considered forcing to game. No Trump is used as a negative response when forced to bid."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(bridge) A bidding system in which the responder does not support a partner's bid suit without 4 card support or 3 cards plus a Queen or higher, never passes an opening 1 bid while holding one and a half honor tricks or more, always responds with an indication of hand strength, and in which a 2 opener or jump bid is considered forcing to game. No Trump is used as a negative response when forced to bid."
      ],
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