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presses

n. countable

B2 Upper Intermediate US //ˈpɹɛsəz// UK //pɹˈɛsɪz// press·es

SIMPLE

The printing presses run all night to produce the morning paper.

CONTEXTUAL

University presses often publish academic research that commercial publishers might find too niche for a general audience.

COMPLEX

As the industrial revolution progressed, steam-powered presses replaced manual ones, drastically increasing the speed at which information could be disseminated to the public.

Usage

The plural form of 'press'; when referring to the media as a whole, the singular 'the press' is more common.

Idioms2 entries

01
hot off the presses
Freshly printed, minted, written, or created.
02
stop the presses
An exclamation used to introduce especially new, important, surprising, or recent developments.

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