high-pressure Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite aggressively and persistently persuasive
    hard-hitting.
    • a hard-hitting advertising campaign
    • a high-pressure salesman

WordNet


High"-pres`sure adjective
Definitions
  1. 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.
  2. Fig.: Urgent; intense; as, a high-pressure business or social life.

Webster 1913