[ I/T ] to push firmly against something that is fixed in position:

[ I/T ] When you press clothes, you use an iron (= a heavy device with a flat base) to make them smooth.

[ T ] to try to persuade or cause someone to do something, or to act in a determined way to cause something to be accepted:

[ C ] any of various devices that use force:

[ U ] newspapers, magazines, and other businesses that communicate news to the public by print, television, or radio, or the people who work to prepare and present the news:

[ U ] Good/bad press is the positive or negative reaction of newspapers, magazines, etc., to a person or thing:

[ C ] a business that prints and produces books or other printed material:

to try hard to persuade someone to do something:

also the press COMMUNICATIONS newspapers and magazines, and those parts of television and radio that broadcast news, or the people who work for newspapers, etc.:

[ S or U ] the judgment that is given about someone or something in the newspapers or on radio or television:

[ C ] a business that publishes and sometimes prints books, etc.:

[ C ] PRODUCTION a machine that is used for printing books, etc.: