Usually means: Forced military service by kidnapping.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. impressment: Merriam-Webster
  2. impressment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. impressment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. impressment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. impressment: Vocabulary.com
  6. Impressment, impressment: Wordnik
  7. impressment: Wiktionary
  8. impressment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. impressment: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Impressment, impressment: Dictionary.com
  11. Impressment (Nova Scotia), Impressment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Impressment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. impressment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. impressment: Rhymezone
  15. Impressment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. impressment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. impressment: FreeDictionary.org
  18. impressment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. impressment: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impressment: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impressment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. impressment: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. IMPRESSMENT, IMPRESSMENT, IMPRESSMENT: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. impressment: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (impressment)

noun:  The act of seizing for public use; impressing into public service, especially military service and (most often) naval service.

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