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What is an impressment?

What is an impressment? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of seizing for public use; impressing into public service.
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Indeed, the North Koreans knew that they had much to answer for regarding their impressment, murder, and kidnapping of South Koreans.
The last conflict between Britain and the USA began when the British blockade of Napoleonic Europe and naval impressment of American sailors inflamed relations.
This day is memorable for the impressment of seamen into the British service.
The most serious difficulty in the way of negotiation had been the question of impressment.
The Gbaya resisted French forces throughout the colonial period, notably in the early 1920s, because of the brutal impressment of Gbaya men and women as porters and labourers.
Through the 19th century there was a gradual decline in the practice of impressment.

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