I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pressing problem (= one that needs to be dealt with very soon )
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Lack of clean drinking water is the most pressing problem facing the refugees.
a pressing/crying need (= a very urgent need )
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There’s a crying need for more doctors and nurses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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She had more pressing matters in hand.
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She had more pressing things on her mind.
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Few envisaged what was to come, for there were more pressing problems.
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It can be done in spring too, but there are usually more pressing jobs then.
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On the right, the even more pressing problem of who was to succeed Alexander.
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Since the boundary extension however, accountability has become a much more pressing and pertinent issue.
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But if his aim is to justify as well as to interpret Marx's theory, the point becomes more pressing .
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This became a more and more pressing problem in Bismarck's last years.
most
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The most pressing need was probably in financial management.
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When the war ended, the most pressing need was to provide food and fuel.
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My most pressing experience of Wigg as a tipster was on one of the rare occasions when I went to the Derby.
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The Greenhouse Effect is now the e world's most pressing environmental problem.
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The most pressing of all the problems of family poverty, however, remains the least soluble.
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Having isolated the most pressing area of weakness, the real work can begin.
■ NOUN
issue
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And there is a more pressing issue in its tie with Standard Life.
matter
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She had more pressing matters in hand.
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We have more pressing matters on our mind.
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In any case he had more pressing matters to worry about.
need
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Funding issues For many centres, securing funding for the new qualifications is a pressing need .
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The most pressing need was probably in financial management.
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When the war ended, the most pressing need was to provide food and fuel.
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However, he insists on the pressing need for government to improve social welfare provision.
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I just wish he hadn't felt a pressing need to turn himself into some sort of Hollywood-director clone for this production.
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Solving the problem A pressing need in reforming medical education is to redress the imbalance between teaching, research, and administration.
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But this is not a pressing need .
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A family business, with quite modest funds, has a pressing need for more capital.
problem
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The client may then be asked to re-order this list in terms of the most and least pressing problems .
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Only a few delegates sensed that pressing problems had been shelved.
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Few envisaged what was to come, for there were more pressing problems .
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In the absence of pressing problems he improvises his activities, working the case he wants to work.
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Yet the world we live in cries out for more critical and creative solutions to many, pressing problems .
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However the immediate task of most advice workers is to help the clients in the interview room cope with day-to-day pressing problems .
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On the right, the even more pressing problem of who was to succeed Alexander.
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But now there is the pressing problem of what to do with Mr Landor who seems incapable of acting for himself.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a pressing need for medical supplies
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Survival is the most pressing concern of any new company.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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More pressing political problems would doubtless have necessitated the relegation of such matters to a secondary role.
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On the right, the even more pressing problem of who was to succeed Alexander.
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The company likes to oversee as much of the recording to pressing operation as possible - which takes about four months.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At its Llanfyllin site, Grayman Tooling and Pressings manufactures sheet metal pressings and assemblies mainly for the automotive industry.
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But the pressings which come out of the plant for Cowley and Longbridge are essential.
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The ones selected for each disc present the artists' finest performances and these are only transferred from high quality original pressings.
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The three formed around 18 months ago and released a trio of EPs in a thousand pressings each.