0 past participle, past simple of press-gang --
1 to force or strongly persuade someone to do something they do not want to do: --
They cannot be press-ganged into joining.
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.
We have a situation where a number of independent individuals who are self-employed, have been press-ganged, or are being press-ganged for the most part, into employment.
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.
