In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Finally, the matter of encouraging faculty to seek system-related experiences on their sabbaticals is more a matter of "jawboning" than something that requires major reorganization of academic procedures.
From theCambridge English Corpus
I can see that henpecking will be the equivalent ofjawboningin our economy for the immediate future.
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