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• press into service — index resort Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• press into service — press (someone or something) into service : to use (someone or something) for a particular job or purpose when a special need occurs Retired doctors and nurses were pressed into service to help care for the wounded. The backup computer was… …   Useful english dictionary

• press into service — press (someone) into service to persuade or force someone to do something. Murphy pressed his sister into service to do the research …   New idioms dictionary

• press into service — press (something) into service to use something for an unusual purpose. A few buses and trucks were pressed into service, but the vast majority of refugees walked …   New idioms dictionary

• press into service — Meaning Induce someone to join the military. Origin In the UK in the 18th and 19th century hapless youths were often tricked or forced into joining the navy by press gangs . They usually got the victim drunk first. A favourite trick was to slip a …   Meaning and origin of phrases

• press into service — required to help, forced to serve    The young men were injured, so the old men were pressed into service …   English idioms

• press — Ⅰ. press [1] ► VERB 1) move into a position of contact with something by exerting continuous physical force. 2) exert continuous physical force on (something), especially to operate a device. 3) apply pressure to (something) to flatten or shape… …   English terms dictionary

• press — I n. instrument for crushing, shaping, squeezing 1) a cider; cookie (AE); hydraulic; wine press publishing house 2) a university; vanity press device for printing 3) a printing press 4) the presses roll 5) (misc.) to go to press 6) in press (our… …   Combinatory dictionary

• press — English has two words press. The commoner, and older, ‘exert force, push’ [14], comes via Old French presser from Latin pressāre, a verb derived from the past participle of premere ‘press’ (source of English print). The corresponding noun press… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• press — English has two words press. The commoner, and older, ‘exert force, push’ [14], comes via Old French presser from Latin pressāre, a verb derived from the past participle of premere ‘press’ (source of English print). The corresponding noun press… …   Word origins

• Into the Groove — Single par Madonna extrait de l’album Like a Virgin Face A Into the Groove Face B Shoo Bee Doo …   Wikipédia en Français