impressment
/im-pres-muhnt/US // ɪmˈprɛs mənt //UK // (ɪmˈprɛsmənt) //
压迫,印象派,强迫性,压迫感
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n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the act of impressing people or property into public service or use.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as indraft
Synonyms
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Examples
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.
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