press gang

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

a group of people who were employed in the past to force men to join the army or navy

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

press gangEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus press gangEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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press gang