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impressment

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun impressment has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

impressmentn. 
     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."  [1913 Webster]

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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