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Impressment

Impressment Meaning & Definition
Impressment Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Impressment?

[n] the act of coercing someone into government service

Synonyms | Synonyms for Impressment: impress

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | seizure

Impressment In Webster's Dictionary

\Im*press"ment\, 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. The great scandal of our naval service -- impressment -- died a protracted death. --J. H. Burton.

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