(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If you are ~ed into doing something, you are made or persuaded to do it, even though you do not really want to. (mainly BRIT)
I was ~ed into working in that business...
She was a volunteer, she hadn’t had to be ~ed.
= force
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed into -ing/n, be V-ed
2.
If people are ~ed, they are captured and forced to join the army or navy. (mainly BRIT)
They left their villages to evade being ~ed into the army...
The government denies that the women were ~ed.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed into n, be V-ed
~ing
...the ~ing of young people into the country’s armed forces.
N-SING: the N of n
3.
In former times, a ~ was a group of men who used to capture boys and men and force them to join the navy.
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