presser

From press (verb) +‎ -er (“agent -er”).

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presser (plural pressers)

1. A person, device, or agent that presses or squeezes, as:

   Visiting a traditional vineyard, we watched the grape pressers treading the grapes underfoot.

   • 1977, Billboard, volume 89, number 46:

     That's the name of the people who make the polystyrene compound used by pressers of records that don't warp.

   1. A member of a press-gang, who forces (presses) others into service.
      • 2012, Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood, The Fabled Coast

        Overnight, North Shields was cordoned off by soldiers while the pressers descended in force, and left with a haul of more than two hundred and fifty men, including sailors, mechanics, and every kind of labourer.

   2. A person or device that removes wrinkles, usually from clothing.

      Synonym: (device) clothes press

      • 1950, Carl Jonas, Snowslide, page 142:

        He saw the man who did the cleaning and pressing for the hotel, a man whom he had always seen before in the gloom of the pressing shop sweating over a steam presser.

   3. (medicine) Alternative spelling of pressor: Synonym of vasopressor.

• (pressing clothes): ironing

From press (“press release/press conference”) +‎ -er (Variety “-er”).

presser (plural pressers)

1. (media, informal) A press release.
2. (media, informal) A press conference or press briefing.

   Synonyms: newser, pressie

   • 2022 May 18, Paul Karp, “Australian election briefing: Scott Morrison bulldozes a kid while Anthony Albanese takes the stage”, in The Guardian‎:

     At the presser, [Scott] Morrison confirmed that the petrol tax of 22 cents a litre will go back to 44 cents after six months despite prices nudging $2 a litre again; […]

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 117:

     A statement will be issued. We'll do a presser this aftern—

• repress

From Latin pressāre, present active infinitive of pressō, frequentative of premō.

• IPA^(key): /pʁɛ.se/ ~ /pʁe.se/

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presser

1. (transitive) to urge
2. (transitive) to squeeze, to squash
3. (transitive) to hurry, to hurry up
4. (reflexive) to hurry up
5. (reflexive) to press against each other, to flock

• “presser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

presser m or f

1. indefinite plural of presse

presser

1. present tense of presse

presser f

1. indefinite plural of presse