• IPA: /ˈpɹɛsɪŋ/

pressing

1. 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.”

2. 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.

• Italian: urgente, imminente, pressante
• Russian: неотло́жный
• Spanish: apremiante, acuciante

• Italian: insistente, persistente

pressing (plural 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.

1. Present participle of press