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View synonyms for impressment
impressment
[ im-pres-muhnt ]
impressment
/ ɪmˈprɛsmənt /
noun
- the commandeering or conscription of things or men into government service
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Origin of impressment1
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Example Sentences
Every member and every servant of the Company was to be privileged against impressment and arrest.
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The navy in time of war was recruited by impressment, a system which, though recognised by common law, entailed much hardship.
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In this also Rhode Island bore her part, propping as best she might her tottering treasury and using impressment for raising men.
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In the provisioning of the army the Confederate Government had recourse to impressment and the arbitrary fixing of prices.
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Farmers who were compelled to accept the prices fixed by the impressment commissioners cried out that they were being ruined.
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