Verb (used with object), verb (used without object) : The President jawboned the steel industry into postponing price increases.    From Dictionary.com. 

Adjective : jawbone controls.    From Dictionary.com. 

That had me thinking about "jawboning" versus actual acts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Survey Pre-Test: Who In Government Has Influence Over What?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Still, "jawboning" is an inelegant, imprecise and old-fashioned term.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other presidents 'jawbone,' but Obama 'extorts'] Reference

How much "jawboning" the next President will do in favor of the necessary funding will be interesting, to say the least!.    From Wordnik.com.  [CBO on Ares, Orion, and Shuttle - NASA Watch] Reference

Some investors waved off the Fed's language as empty "jawboning," while others found reasons for encouragement in the Fed statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue-Chip Winning Streak Ends] Reference

Q There's still room for jawboning in these two areas?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference

BHP BILLITON has had enough with Rio Tinto's jawboning.    From Wordnik.com.  [BHP finds its voice] Reference

Q jawboning or maybe something in the State of the Union?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Mccurry Press Briefing] Reference

Thirdly, the president, six years ago talked about jawboning OPEC.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 25, 2006] Reference

SECRETARY RILEY: I would find it not as jawboning but as a partnership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Briefing By Education Secretary Riley And Galston] Reference

And we haven't had any success in jawboning OPEC, which has been a mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 25, 2006] Reference

Mr. Rodosky said jawboning by officials alone only provides temporary respite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despite Fuss, Mortgage-Backed] Reference

SERWER: Now is that the usual jawboning of a lawyer or does he know something?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2004] Reference

Enough jawboning, we need specifics, both from the president and from Chairman Pitt.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2002] Reference

But I don't know, I think it has to do with Miles O'Brien jawboning that market down.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2005] Reference

More jawboning this week on the topic of the subprime mortgage meltdown on Capitol Hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2007] Reference

Both of those episodes involved government jawboning and flooding the markets with money.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Turmoil, Capitalism in U.S. Sets New Course] Reference

Ignorance (spending so much time jawboning reporters he can't keep up on current events)?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Campaign Winning Today's Spin War With McCain Over Iraq?] Reference

Despite 13 years of jawboning, though, most major nuclear operators are still not on board.    From Wordnik.com.  [India Unmasks America's Nuclear Liabilities] Reference

These apologists for war crimes have been jawboning the issue from every conceivable angle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph A. Palermo: Torture: "It's Perfectly Legal -- But We Don't Do It"] Reference

I don't mind jawboning the industry, which seems to favor some level of voluntary reduction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salt talks] Reference

And if jawboning doesn't do the trick, just tell them, we've got to disgorge some of these profits.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2006] Reference

The latest jawboning from Mr. Bernanke and others in the dollar camp merely kept the currency afloat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banker Brawl:] Reference

And you keep jawboning to make it sound like he wants to be nice, and he is taking no steps so to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference

MR. MCCURRY: Well, a large measure of it is jawboning, but that is important to the Chinese leadership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference

Obama is unlikely to get traction by trying to turn McCain's jawboning of the economy into oblviousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain: "Fundamentals Are Strong ... Fundamentals Are Strong ... Fundamentals Are Strong"] Reference

DOBBINS: I am not sure we have any very good options in that regard - other than to keep jawboning them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Hughes: Interview with Former Asst. Secretary of State Dobbins: Afghanistan's Diplomatic Dilemmas] Reference

The pit boss stood at Earl's station looking alternately at his watch and at him jawboning him to do it faster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Money (January Challenge)] Reference

Click-wheelers would normally be jawboning such weighty questions, but instead the news is the iPhone Price Cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Apple’s iPhone Ate The New iPods] Reference

By jawboning the U.S. currency upwards, the Fed chairman hopes to address the twin ills of inflation and high oil prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bernanke Bolsters Weak Dollar] Reference

The dollar will probably face pressure this week as the favorable effects of recent jawboning by U.S. officials wear thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dollar Could Face a Battle] Reference

That's clear from the jawboning at this week's restarted India-Pakistan talks, where little of substance was accomplished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kashmir Crossroads] Reference

The super delegates will support Obama, and no cheating, lying, or jawboning on the part of the Clintons will change that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton Campaign Manager To Obama Team: Help Get Michigan And Florida Counted] Reference

Barring some major jawboning from the White House, they appear likely to sit this one out, people at both trade groups say.    From Wordnik.com.  [DON'T SHOW US THE MONEY] Reference

The report suggests that jawboning by federal officials for banks to use TARP funds to boost lending is having a limited effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [TARP Cash Isn't Moving Forward] Reference

But after Mr. Trichet's statement, investors started to view Mr. Bernanke's jawboning about inflation fears as lacking substance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dollar Tumbles] Reference