单词	pressing
释义	pressing1 adjectivepressing2 noun pressingpress‧ing1 /ˈpresɪŋ/ ●○○ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a pressing need for medical supplies Survival is the most pressing concern of any new company. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS More pressing political problems would doubtless have necessitated the relegation of such matters to a secondary role. On the right, the even more pressing problem of who was to succeed Alexander. The company likes to oversee as much of the recording to pressing operation as possible - which takes about four months. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► pressing problem/matter/need etc  Poverty is a more pressing problem than pollution. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a pressing/crying need (=a very urgent need)· There’s a crying need for more doctors and nurses. ► a pressing problem (=one that needs to be dealt with very soon)· Lack of clean drinking water is the most pressing problem facing the refugees. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► more · She had more pressing matters in hand.· She had more pressing things on her mind.· Few envisaged what was to come, for there were more pressing problems.· It can be done in spring too, but there are usually more pressing jobs then.· On the right, the even more pressing problem of who was to succeed Alexander.· Since the boundary extension however, accountability has become a much more pressing and pertinent issue.· But if his aim is to justify as well as to interpret Marx's theory, the point becomes more pressing.· This became a more and more pressing problem in Bismarck's last years. ► most · The most pressing need was probably in financial management.· When the war ended, the most pressing need was to provide food and fuel.· My most pressing experience of Wigg as a tipster was on one of the rare occasions when I went to the Derby.· The Greenhouse Effect is now the e world's most pressing environmental problem.· The most pressing of all the problems of family poverty, however, remains the least soluble.· Having isolated the most pressing area of weakness, the real work can begin. NOUN► issue · And there is a more pressing issue in its tie with Standard Life. ► matter · She had more pressing matters in hand.· We have more pressing matters on our mind.· In any case he had more pressing matters to worry about. ► need · Funding issues For many centres, securing funding for the new qualifications is a pressing need.· The most pressing need was probably in financial management.· When the war ended, the most pressing need was to provide food and fuel.· However, he insists on the pressing need for government to improve social welfare provision.· I just wish he hadn't felt a pressing need to turn himself into some sort of Hollywood-director clone for this production.· Solving the problem A pressing need in reforming medical education is to redress the imbalance between teaching, research, and administration.· But this is not a pressing need.· A family business, with quite modest funds, has a pressing need for more capital. ► problem · The client may then be asked to re-order this list in terms of the most and least pressing problems.· Only a few delegates sensed that pressing problems had been shelved.· Few envisaged what was to come, for there were more pressing problems.· In the absence of pressing problems he improvises his activities, working the case he wants to work.· Yet the world we live in cries out for more critical and creative solutions to many, pressing problems.· However the immediate task of most advice workers is to help the clients in the interview room cope with day-to-day pressing problems.· On the right, the even more pressing problem of who was to succeed Alexander.· But now there is the pressing problem of what to do with Mr Landor who seems incapable of acting for himself. Word family WORD FAMILYadjectivepressedpressingpressurizedpressurednounpresspressurepressingverbpresspressurepressurize needing to be discussed or dealt with very soon SYN  urgentpressing problem/matter/need etc Poverty is a more pressing problem than pollution. pressing1 adjectivepressing2 noun pressingpressing2 noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS At its Llanfyllin site, Grayman Tooling and Pressings manufactures sheet metal pressings and assemblies mainly for the automotive industry. But the pressings which come out of the plant for Cowley and Longbridge are essential. The ones selected for each disc present the artists' finest performances and these are only transferred from high quality original pressings. The three formed around 18 months ago and released a trio of EPs in a thousand pressings each. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a pressing/crying need (=a very urgent need)· There’s a crying need for more doctors and nurses. ► a pressing problem (=one that needs to be dealt with very soon)· Lack of clean drinking water is the most pressing problem facing the refugees. Word family WORD FAMILYadjectivepressedpressingpressurizedpressurednounpresspressurepressingverbpresspressurepressurize 1[countable] a thing or group of things, especially records or CDs, that have been made by pressing plastic or metal into shape:  The CD, released in October, sold out a first pressing of 1,500 in just four months.2[countable, uncountable] the act of pressing something:  The olives are heat treated during the second pressing.
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