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press into service
verb as in bring into play
verb as in enlist
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verb as in use
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“There is no way to replicate the transportation service provided by more than 7,500 employees,” Stessel said, although he noted a rail-only strike would mean “you could press into service every available bus in the region and take some meaningful steps to keep people moving.”
NJ Transit had warned last week that only about four in 10 rail commuters will be able to get into New York on the extra buses the agency said it would press into service as a contingency plan.
"The numbers say it all. With about 814 million people eligible to vote, India will witness a nine-phase election over a 36-day span covering 930,000 polling stations that will press into service about 1.9 million electronic ballot units - the largest and lengthiest democratic exercise in the world," says .
In this biological view of Religion, its necessary and natural spring is the same as that of non-religious life, i.e. the ‘will to live’ in its multiform appearances, while the ground of differentiation between the religious and the secular is neither specific feelings nor emotions, nor yet distinctive impulses, desires, or purposes, but the nature of the force which it is attempted to press into service.
If your phone system gives out, check if there are any fax lines that you can press into service for urgent calls.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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