Usually means: Forces exerted over specific areas.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. pressures: Merriam-Webster
  2. pressures: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pressures: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pressure's, Pressures, pressure's, pressures: Wordnik
  5. pressures: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pressures: Wiktionary
  7. pressures: Dictionary.com
  8. pressures: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Pressures: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. pressures: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pressures: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pressures: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pressures: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. pressures: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pressures: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pressure)

noun:  A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
noun:  A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
noun:  Distress.
noun:  Urgency
noun:  (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
noun:  (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.
verb:  (transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.
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