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(obsolete) simple past and past participle of impress
plural imprests
An advance of funds, especially to a government service or employee. quotations examples
Calling on Lacon at the Cabinet Office to deliver the Circus's monthly imprest account for his inspection, he had been astonished to see Sam emerging from his private office, joking easily with Lacon and Saul Enderby of the Foreign Office.
1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 240
third-person singular simple present imprests, present participle impresting, simple past and past participle imprested
To advance funds on loan. quotations examples
it shall not be lawful to imprest or issue to the paymaster general of his majesty's land forces
February 23 1780, Edmund Burke, Establism Bill