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impressment

Syllables: im·press·ment/ɪmˈpɹɛsmənt/

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

Noun

impressment (countable and uncountable, plural impressments)

  1. The act of seizing for public use; impressing into public service, especially military service and (most often) naval service.
    • owing to the immense number of our sailors, and the extent of our commerce, we were enabled by impressment and other means, to fit out and man a powerful fleet in a few weeks1808 February 3, Hansard
    • Although it was a warm day, she seemed to think of nothing but the fire. I fancied she was jealous even of the saucepan on it; and I have reason to know that she took its impressment into the service of boiling my egg and broiling my bacon, in dudgeon […]1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “I am Sent Away from Home”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC

impressment meaning in Urdu and Bengali

impressment in Urdu

بیگار, جبری بھرتی, ضبطی

impressment in Bengali

জনসেবায় নিয়োগ করা

Forms of impressment

pluralimpressments

Origin of impressment

From impress + -ment.

Questions about impressment

What does impressment mean?
Impressment means the act of seizing for public use; impressing into public service, especially military service and (most often) naval service.
What is impressment in Urdu?
Impressment in Urdu is بیگار, جبری بھرتی, ضبطی. See Impressment meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is impressment?
Impressment is a noun.
How do you pronounce impressment?
Impressment is pronounced /ɪmˈpɹɛsmənt/.
What is the plural of impressment?
The plural of impressment is impressments.

Words near impressment in the dictionary

  1. impressions
  2. impressive
  3. impressively
  4. impressiveness
  5. impressivity
  6. impressment
  7. impressments
  8. impressor
  9. impressors
  10. impresst
  11. impresstaurant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: impressment (page history and authors); impressment (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impressment (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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