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high-pressure

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1. high-pressure - Adjective

2. high-pressure - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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high pressure

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I give the public what it wants. I never had to send out high-pressure salesmen. I could never meet the demand. Al Capone

People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so good to pagans, too. High-pressure evangelization strikes me as an attempt to deprive people of their freedom of choice. Andrew Greeley

I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me. Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Burnout comes easy in the high-pressure world of television, and when the opportunity arose to move to Las Vegas and bring my friends and star chefs to open their restaurants at the Venetian, I made the move here. Robin Leach

Hosting talk radio is an exotic, high-pressure gig that not many people are fit for, and being truly good at it requires skills so specialized that many of them don't have names. David Foster Wallace

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