0 past participle, past simple of press-gang
1 to force or strongly persuade someone to do something they do not want to do:
The writ of habeas corpus was used in relation to persons press-ganged into the navy, or in disputes over apprenticeship terms.
Many of the men had been press-ganged into taking part in the machine-breaking episodes.
Inevitably, the casualty rate among those press-ganged civilian so-called volunteers is fearfully high.
We have to watch what happens in another place regarding the citizen and his duties as a taxpayer, or as an unpaid, press-ganged tax collector.
I have strong reservations about the use of "press-ganged " community service.
What they are doing is to treat these men in this way merely because the men have been press-ganged.
They mentioned one elderly man who was press-ganged while on his way to hospital for treatment.
They cannot be press-ganged into the new structures.
