impressment

impressment
    n 1: the act of coercing someone into government service [syn:
         {impress}, {impressment}]
    

Impressment \Im*press"ment\ ([i^]m*pr[e^]s"ment), n.
   The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into
   public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of
   provisions or of sailors.
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         The great scandal of our naval service -- impressment
         -- died a protracted death.              --J. H.
                                                  Burton.
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42 Moby Thesaurus words for "impressment":
      abduction, angary, annexation, annexure, attachment, call, call-up,
      collectivization, commandeering, communalization, communization,
      compulsory military service, confiscation, conscription, crimping,
      distraint, distress, draft, draft call, drafting, eminent domain,
      enlistment, enrollment, execution, expropriation, garnishment,
      impoundment, induction, kidnapping, levy, mobilization, muster,
      nationalization, press, recruiting, recruitment, right of angary,
      selective service, sequestration, shanghaiing, socialization,
      summons