Timeline for A verb for when we actively extract information from others?
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| Aug 18, 2017 at 6:30 | comment | added | WS2 | Elicit seems to me to describe an end result. 'She elicited the necessary information'. But it doesn't describe a process. What does 'eliciting' look or sound like? | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 0:42 | comment | added | jorfus | I think of elicit as causing a forced response (but not necessarily in a subtle way). His snide comment elicited a laugh from the jurors. | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 21:53 | comment | added | juxtapose | Definitely elicit, as in "My last offer finally elicited the response I was after" or "The elicitation of customer requirements isn't always a straightforward process." | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 21:38 | history | answered | lux | CC BY-SA 3.0 |