presser

See also: Presser

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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.

Derived terms

• point presser
• presser beam
• presser foot
• seam presser

See also

• (pressing clothes): ironing

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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—

Anagrams

• repress

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɛ.se/ ~ /pʁe.se/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France):

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• Audio (France (Grenoble)):

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• Audio (France (Hérault)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Massy)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Verb

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of presser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	presser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pressant /pʁɛ.sɑ̃/ or /pʁe.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pressé /pʁɛ.se/ or /pʁe.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	presse /pʁɛs/	presses /pʁɛs/	presse /pʁɛs/	pressons /pʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /pʁe.sɔ̃/	pressez /pʁɛ.se/ or /pʁe.se/	pressent /pʁɛs/
	imperfect	pressais /pʁɛ.sɛ/ or /pʁe.sɛ/	pressais /pʁɛ.sɛ/ or /pʁe.sɛ/	pressait /pʁɛ.sɛ/ or /pʁe.sɛ/	pressions /pʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /pʁe.sjɔ̃/	pressiez /pʁɛ.sje/ or /pʁe.sje/	pressaient /pʁɛ.sɛ/ or /pʁe.sɛ/
	past historic2	pressai /pʁɛ.se/ or /pʁe.se/	pressas /pʁɛ.sa/ or /pʁe.sa/	pressa /pʁɛ.sa/ or /pʁe.sa/	pressâmes /pʁɛ.sam/ or /pʁe.sam/	pressâtes /pʁɛ.sat/ or /pʁe.sat/	pressèrent /pʁɛ.sɛʁ/ or /pʁe.sɛʁ/
	future	presserai /pʁɛ.sʁe/ or /pʁe.sʁe/	presseras /pʁɛ.sʁa/ or /pʁe.sʁa/	pressera /pʁɛ.sʁa/ or /pʁe.sʁa/	presserons /pʁɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /pʁe.sʁɔ̃/	presserez /pʁɛ.sʁe/ or /pʁe.sʁe/	presseront /pʁɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /pʁe.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	presserais /pʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /pʁe.sʁɛ/	presserais /pʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /pʁe.sʁɛ/	presserait /pʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /pʁe.sʁɛ/	presserions /pʁɛ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pʁe.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	presseriez /pʁɛ.sə.ʁje/ or /pʁe.sə.ʁje/	presseraient /pʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /pʁe.sʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	presse /pʁɛs/	presses /pʁɛs/	presse /pʁɛs/	pressions /pʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /pʁe.sjɔ̃/	pressiez /pʁɛ.sje/ or /pʁe.sje/	pressent /pʁɛs/
	imperfect2	pressasse /pʁɛ.sas/ or /pʁe.sas/	pressasses /pʁɛ.sas/ or /pʁe.sas/	pressât /pʁɛ.sa/ or /pʁe.sa/	pressassions /pʁɛ.sa.sjɔ̃/ or /pʁe.sa.sjɔ̃/	pressassiez /pʁɛ.sa.sje/ or /pʁe.sa.sje/	pressassent /pʁɛ.sas/ or /pʁe.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	presse /pʁɛs/	—	pressons /pʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /pʁe.sɔ̃/	pressez /pʁɛ.se/ or /pʁe.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• pressant
• pressé
• presser la détente
• presser le pas
• pression
• se presser le citron

Further reading

• “presser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

presser m or f

1. indefinite plural of presse

Verb

presser

1. present tense of presse

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

presser f

1. indefinite plural of presse