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PRESS GANG
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A detachment empowered to force civilians to serve in the army or navy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("press gang" is a kind of...):
detachment (a small unit of troops of special composition)
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