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Press Gang

nounid 112194·updated May 18, 2026
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a detachment empowered to force civilians to serve in the army or navy

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Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Press Gangs
possessive
Press Gang's
pluralpossessive
Press Gangs'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
§1
a detachment empowered to force civilians to serve in the army or navy
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
a detachment empowered to force civilians to serve in the army or navy
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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