Meaning & use
pressers
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“pressers” is a form of “presser”.
Meanings
nounpluralinformal
Press conferences, meetings where officials or public figures speak to reporters and answer their questions.
Grammar: Plural of presser; one presser, two pressers.
Patterns
- hold pressers
- pressers with someone
The governor holds pressers every Monday morning.
Campaign pressers were held outside the courthouse.
The coach dislikes pressers after losing games.
nounplural
People or machines that press something, such as clothes, grapes or metal.
Grammar: Plural of presser, naming workers or machines.
Patterns
- pressers at a factory
The dry cleaner employs two pressers who iron shirts all day.
Grape pressers crush the fruit in the autumn.
Steam pressers lined the wall of the laundry.
Word forms
| base form | presser |
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Common combinations
- hold pressers
- The mayor's office holds weekly pressers.
- post-game pressers
- Post-game pressers can be tense.
- attend pressers
- Reporters attend pressers to ask questions.
- televised pressers
- Televised pressers reach millions of viewers.
- daily pressers
- The White House holds daily pressers during crises.
Synonyms and how they differ
- press conferences
- Press conferences is the full formal term, while pressers is shorthand used by people inside the news business.
- briefings
- Briefings are usually shorter updates for reporters, whereas pressers may also include longer announcements.
- news conferences
- News conferences is another neutral phrase, and it carries no insider tone like pressers.
Word family
Commonly confused: pressers or pressures?
pressers vs pressures
Pressures means forces or stresses that push on someone, while pressers are press conferences or people who press things.
Practice
A sports writer says the coach was angry at the pressers. What are pressers here?
Choose one answer.
In journalism, pressers are press conferences where officials answer reporters' questions. The other options are not meetings with the press.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “pressers”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.