adjective, noun
adjective [usuallybeforenoun]
1 needing to be dealt with immediately
SYNURGENT:
I'm afraid I have some pressing business to attend to. * There is a pressing need for more specialist nurses. * The government seems to think that international problems are more pressing than domestic ones.
2 difficult to refuse or to ignore:
a pressing invitation
noun an object, especially a record, made by using pressure or weight to shape a piece of metal, plastic, etc.; a number of such objects that are made at one time:
The initial pressing of the group's album has already sold out.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for pressing is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does pressing appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — pressing appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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