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impressment
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun impressment has 1 sense
- impressment(n = noun.act) impress - the act of coercing someone into government service; Array is a kind of seizure
Derived form verb impress6
CIDE DICTIONARY
impressment, n.
The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors. [1913 Webster]
"The great scandal of our naval service -- impressment -- died a protracted death."
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THESAURUS
impressment
abduction, angary, annexation, annexure, attachment, call, call-up, collectivization, commandeering, communalization, communization, compulsory military service, confiscation, conscription, crimping, distraint, distress, draft, draft call, drafting, eminent domain, enlistment, enrollment, execution, expropriation, garnishment, impoundment, induction, kidnapping, levy, mobilization, muster, nationalization, press, recruiting, recruitment, right of angary, selective service, sequestration, shanghaiing, socialization, summons
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