# pressing
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɹɛsɪŋ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛsɪŋ

### Adjective

pressing (comparative more pressing, superlative most pressing)
* Needing urgent attention.
** 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 75.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:“I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.”
** 1951 March, E. J. Tyler, “Post-War Recovery on the Netherlands Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:The rebuilding of damaged stations is proceeding slowly, on account of the shortage of building materials and the pressing needs of housing, but steady progress is being made.
** 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, “Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'”, in The Guardian‎:Argentinians support the "Malvinas" cause, which is written into the constitution. But they are also worried about pressing economic problems such as inflation, rising crime and corruption.
** 2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 25:58 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any worse...‎, archived from the original on 4 December 2022:Four Japanese torpedo boats launch an attack on the Suvorov. Despite burning steadily for several hours and now taking a torpedo to the stern, the ship still lashes out at its attackers with a few remaining guns. With no pressing need to continue the attack to closer range, the torpedo boats fall back, noting the position for a night attack if Suvorov survives that long.
* Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
** 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 2, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:You are very pressing, Basil, but I am afraid I must go.
** 1908, Joseph Conrad, The Duel:He was pressing and persuasive.

#### Quotations

* For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pressing.

#### Derived terms

* pressingly
* pressingness

#### Translations

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### Noun

pressing (plural pressings)
* The application of pressure by a press or other means.
* A metal or plastic part made with a press.
* The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
* A memento preserved by pressing, folding, or drying between the leaves of a flat container, book, or folio. Usually done with a flower, ribbon, letter, or other soft, small keepsake.
* The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
* A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
* Urgent insistence.

#### Derived terms

* head pressing
* pressing cloth
* pressing comb
* test pressing

### Verb

pressing
* present participle and gerund of press

### Anagrams

* springes, presigns, spersing, Spigners, Persings

## French
### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from pressing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʁɛ.siŋ/ ~ /pʁe.siŋ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

pressing m (plural pressings)
* dry cleaning shop, a dry-cleaner's

### Further reading

* “pressing”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from press(ure) +‎ -ing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈprɛs.sinɡ/, /ˈprɛs.sin/
* Rhymes: -ɛssinɡ, -ɛssin
* Hyphenation: près‧sing

### Noun

pressing m (invariable)
* (sports, especially soccer) continuous and pressing action that does not allow the opposing team to catch its breath, aiming to remove the ball from its possession
* (figurative, by extension) pressure
    il governo è stato costretto a subire il pressing della sinistrathe government was confined to undergo the left's pressure

### References

* ↑ pressing in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)