Definition of high-pressure High-pressure

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We found 5 definitions of high-pressure from 3 different sources.

What does high-pressure mean?

Adjective
high-pressure - aggressively and persistently persuasive; "a hard-hitting advertising campaign"; "a high-pressure salesman"
		hard-hitting

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high-pressure (Adjective)
Operating with high pressures, such as several times atmospheric pressure but relative.
high-pressure (Adjective)
Tense, stressful.

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.
high-pressure (a.)
Fig.: Urgent; intense; as, a high-pressure business or social life.