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high-performance |
high-pitched |
high-potential |
high-power |
high-powered |
high-pressure
| high-priced
| high-priesthood
| high-priestship
| high-principled
| high-proof
high-pressure
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"
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]
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