PRESS-GANG


Meaning of PRESS-GANG in English

(~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.

N-COUNT

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