noun [sing.] (AmE)
1 (in basketball) a way of attacking in which the members of a team stay close to their opponents over the whole area of play
2 (informal) a strong effort to influence sb or a group of people by putting pressure on them:
President Clinton has been making a full-court press for Catholic voters.
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