pressing

adjective more pressing · most pressing

1. Needing urgent attention. “I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.”

   Similar: instant

2. Insistent, earnest, or persistent. You are very pressing, Basil, but I am afraid I must go.

Similar: importunate

noun pressings

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 improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
4. 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.
5. The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
6. A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
7. Urgent insistence.
8. A tactic of defending players moving forward towards the ball, rather than remaining in position near their goal. His version of pressing—dynamic and aggressive—is now the pre-eminent tactical mode, prompting evolution even in Pep Guardiola, whose press-and-possess football at Barcelona had laid the groundwork for this development.

verb

1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of press