press into service

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press someone or something into service

to force someone or something to serve or function. I don't think you can press him into service just yet. He isn't trained. I think that in an emergency, we could press this machine into service.

See also: press, service

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The campaign for the company's McCafe coffee lineup--cappuccinos, lattes, mochas, and the like--is expected to cost $100 million and to press into service virtually every medium imaginable, including TV, print, radio, billboards, the Web, giveaways with top prizes of $50,000, and, of course, Twitter. THE McCAFE BLITZ by Harry Maurer & Cristina Linblad / BusinessWeek			prepare prepare for prepare the ground prepare the ground for prepare the way prescribe for presence present present company excepted present to preserve preserve against preserve for preserve from preside preside at preside over press press against press charges press down on press flesh press for press forward press into press into service press luck press on press onto press out of press the flesh press the right button press together pressed for money pressed for time pressure pressure into presume presume on pretend pretend that black is white pretend to pretty pretty as a picture Pretty is as pretty does pretty much pretty oneself up pretty pickle Pretty please? pretty state of affairs prevail			Press for Conversion press forging press forming press forward Press Foundation of Asia Press freedom Press freedom Press freedom Press Freedom Grand Jury press galleries press gallery press gang press gang Press Gangs Press Gangs Press Gangs press home press home press home press home press in press in court Press Information Bulletin Press Information Bureau press information center press information center Press Information Department Press Institute for Women in the Developing World Press Institute of Pakistan press into press into service press kit Press leak press lord Press Lots of Keys to Abort Press Lots Of Keys To Accept press luck Press money Press N Peel press notice press of canvas press of sail Press Office Press officer press on press on press on press on Press On Regardless press onto press onward press out press out press out press out of Press pass press photographer press photographer Press Photographer's Year Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles Press Photographers Association of Ireland

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