impressment 的定义
- the act of impressing people or property into public service or use.
impressment 近义词
等同于 draft
更多impressment例句
- Every member and every servant of the Company was to be privileged against impressment and arrest.
- The navy in time of war was recruited by impressment, a system which, though recognised by common law, entailed much hardship.
- In this also Rhode Island bore her part, propping as best she might her tottering treasury and using impressment for raising men.
- In the provisioning of the army the Confederate Government had recourse to impressment and the arbitrary fixing of prices.
- Farmers who were compelled to accept the prices fixed by the impressment commissioners cried out that they were being ruined.