"impressment" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1808 February 3, Hansard",
          "text": "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 weeks",
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          "text": "A month later the governors of six more states, meeting in conference, enigmatically urged the impressment of slaves for “the public service as may be required.”",
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          "text": "[…] in years when need was pressing, […] the government would order the construction of extra ships at specified points on the shores of the Black Sea and Mediterranean, and the impressment of craftsmen to do the work.",
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          "word": "King's shilling"
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          "word": "press gang"
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          "word": "take the shilling"
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