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high-pressure

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Adjective

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high-pres=sure

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective high-pressure has 1 sense

high-pressure(s = adj.all) hard-hitting - aggressively and persistently persuasive; "a hard-hitting advertising campaign"; "a high-pressure salesman"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

high-pressure, a.

Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc. [1913 Webster]
Fig.: Urgent; intense; as, a high-pressure business or social life. [1913 Webster]
Using intense psychological pressure or other incentives to convince others to do things; aggressively persistent; as, high-pressure salesmen; high-pressure tactics. [PJC]

High-pressure engine, an engine in which steam at high pressure is used. It may be either a condensing or a noncondensing engine. Formerly the term was used only of the latter. See Steam engine.