high-pressureadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˌhaɪˈpreʃ.ər/us/ˌhaɪˈpreʃ.ɚ/high-pressure adjective [ before noun ] (PRESSURE)
involving pressure that is greater than usual:
They used special high-pressure hoses to help them put out the fires.
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high-pressure adjective [ before noun ] (SELLING)
High-pressure methods of selling involve persuading people in a forceful way to buy something that often they do not want:
I refuse to be intimidated by high-pressure sales techniques.
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Urging & persuading
- argumentation
- blag
- brainwash
- bring
- browbeat
- butter
- get sth out of sb
- incite
- persuasion
- pitch
- preach
- press-gang
- prevail on/upon sb
- proselytize
- rush sb into (doing) sth
- sucker sb into sth
- talk sb down
- talk sb out of sth
- twist
- work on sb
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high-pressure adjective [ before noun ] (WORRY)
involving a lot of responsibility or worry:
a high-pressure job in advertising
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Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiddly
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- painstaking
- picnic
- problematic
- punishing
- rigorous
- unwieldy
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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