impressment

Examples

• All

• Taken together, three of the letters narrate various abuses associated with impressment, abuses that would not have occurred if the institution had not been sanctioned by the Royal Navy.

  Academic text (2007)

• Sharp opened these later versions with a scathing indictment of the administration because it refused to take any action against the evil and illegal procedure of impressment.

  Academic text (2007)

• But not receiving their regular pay, officers naturally took for their own use the best horses of the common men or those obtained by impressment.

  Academic text (2009)

• The effects of impressment reached far beyond the immediate and detrimental costs to the Royal Navy.

  Academic text (2007)

• The remaining letters described certain atrocious aspects of life at sea as a result of impressment.

  Academic text (2007)

• The war broke out following British attempts to restrict U.S. trade and the Royal Navy's impressment of American seamen.

  Blog text (14)

• While the entire system of impressment frustrated attempts to fill the depleted ranks with able-bodied and willing sailors, other problems compounded the crisis.

  Academic text (2007)

• With the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the Royal Navy could finally stand down from the ready position that it had occupied for over a century, and with no want for sailors came no need for impressment.

  Academic text (2007)

• After emphasizing the need to protect international commerce for the benefit of the whole nation, he moved on to what he believed was the greater problem of infringement on personal freedom and commenced a lengthy diatribe against the current policy of impressment.

  Academic text (2007)

• The impressment of sailors during the war led to widespread protests and unrest.

Synonyms

L

levy

vsimpressment

• Archaic

9 8.0

An official order that makes people join the army

forces people into government service often without their consent

C

conscription

vsimpressment

• Formal

7 8.2

A system that by law makes people serve in the military

is a coercive taking that may happen without consent rather than lawful obligation

I

impress

vsimpressment

• NSFW

1 9.9

The act of forcing people to serve on ships or in the navy

is the longer written form often formed by adding the suffix -ment

Antonyms

R

to release

∞ 1.8

To let someone or something go free from being held

V

volunteer

710 2.2

A person who offers to help without being paid

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology