press-gang Definition på svenska

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Examples of press-gang

  • We are not press-ganged into service.

  • They have done it willingly—they have not been press-ganged into it—and they have had increased support as the weeks have gone by and new disaster has come upon new disaster.

  • Three members came to me and said that they had been press-ganged to go onto it.

  • She had been press-ganged by a high-pressure salesman into committing herself to a hire-purchase agreement which she could not afford.

  • They were people many of whom were press-ganged into fighting.

  • They cannot be press-ganged into the new structures.

  • Under his commission he could legally press-gang local fishermen into service for him.

  • The press masters were not the forced press-gang of old but more like a draft board.

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