Word: shanghaiing

Category: shanghaiing

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Synonyms: shanghaiing

impress

Translations: shanghaiing

shanghaiing in german

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german

Translations:

schanghaiend, Schanghaien

shanghaiing in french

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french

Translations:

shangaïage

shanghaiing in dutch

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dutch

Translations:

Ronselen

shanghaiing in swedish

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swedish

Translations:

Sjanghaja

The meaning and "use of": shanghaiing

verb

force (someone) to join a ship lacking a full crew by drugging them or using other underhanded means. - Otherwise, as Hume remarks in his essay ‘Of the Original Contract’, it is like telling a man who has been shanghaied aboard a ship that he is free to leap into the sea and perish.

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