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pressing
  • (adjective)
    1. Needing urgent attention.
      • 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, ch. 75,
        “I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.”
    2. Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
      • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 2,
        You are very pressing, Basil, but I am afraid I must go.
      • 1908, Joseph Conrad, "The Duel,"
        He was pressing and persuasive.
  • (noun)
    1. The application of pressure by a press or other means.
    2. A metal or plastic part made with a press.
    3. The process of improving the appearance of clothing by removing creases with a press or an iron.
    4. The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
    5. A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
    6. Urgent insistence.
  • (verb)
    1. Present participle of press