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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pressman
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a pressmen, I've had my ups and downs with Tommy.
▪ As the aircraft landed and the pressmen poured out, they were met by a hoard of local photographers.
▪ Doctors, relatives, dubious pressmen, lawyers.
▪ He was asked by a pressman one day which position he considered to be Billy Turner's best.
▪ Ivor Leonard was the first pressman on the scene.
▪ She could either turn round, or brazen her way past the pressmen to the lower reaches of the parkland.
▪ The three uninterested pressmen from the Imperial attended.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pressman

Pressman \Press"man\, n. [See 2d Press.] One of a press gang, who aids in forcing men into the naval service; also, one forced into the service.

Pressman

Pressman \Press"man\, n.; pl. Pressmen.

  1. One who manages, or attends to, a press, esp. a printing press.

  2. One who presses clothes; as, a tailor's pressman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pressman

1590s, from press (n.) + man (n.).

Wiktionary
pressman

n. 1 someone who operates a printing press 2 a journalist or newspaper reporter 3 one who pressgangs people into naval service 4 one who presses clothes

WordNet
pressman
  1. n. someone whose occupation is printing [syn: printer]

  2. a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media [syn: correspondent, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter]

Wikipedia
Pressman (name)

Pressman is a surname that refers to:

Persons
  • Barney Pressman (1895-1991), American businessman
  • Edward R. Pressman (born 1943), American film producer
  • Fred Pressman (1923-1996), American businessman
  • Gabe Pressman (born 1924), American television reporter
  • Jacob Pressman (born 1919), American conservative rabbi from Los Angeles, California.
  • Kevin Pressman (born 1967), English professional football player
  • Lawrence Pressman (born 1939), American actor
  • Lee Pressman (1906–1969), American government official during the Franklin Roosevelt administration
  • Lynn Pressman Raymond (c. 1912–2009), American business executive
  • Roger S. Pressman (contemporary), American technology writer
  • Sally Pressman (born 1981), American ballet dancer and actress
  • Steven Pressman (born 1955), American legal journalist
  • Steven Pressman (economist) (born 1952), American economist
  • Thelma Pressman (1921–2011), American microwave cooking consultant and cookbook author
Fictional characters
  • Milo Pressman, character on the television series 24
Pressman

Pressman can refer to:

  • Pressman (name)
  • Pressman Toy Corporation
  • The operator of a printing press or machine press
  • An employee of a newspaper (British usage)
  • A line of Sony portable tape recorders launched in 1977, from which the original Walkman was developed

Usage examples of "pressman".

Erik Pressman cut a commanding figure on the bridge of his ship, the U.

Then Captain Pressman had dictated the speed, and Will knew that this really was a matter of some urgency.

There had been a brief verbal exchange between Captain Pressman and the leader of the Omistolian force, but no shots were fired.

And then, when Captain Pressman gave the order to Will to get them out of here, now, the tractor beam had been engaged.

This, everyone knew, was the commander of the Omistolian fleet and the one who had carried out the short and unproductive dialogue with Captain Pressman earlier.

Captain Pressman faced him, shoulders square, hands again clasped behind his back.

Captain Pressman regarded him levelly, as if trying to fit a new perception around the old ones he had already established.

It suddenly occurred to Bashir that Pressman was the only person on the scout ship who was behaving the way normal humans should in such a dangerous situation.

He made his way forward to the cockpit and found Pressman cursing under his breath.

I knew nothing about any of this until Pressman paid me a visit on Deep Space Nine a few days ago.

The reports Pressman had provided gave dry facts and figures about what the reptilian humanoids were capable of, but now, actually seeing them scan the terrain for any threat, seeing how they carried themselves with such arrogance and certainty, Danar knew.

Hully Burroughs had been in no mood to join his sailor friends Bill Fielder and Dan Pressman in any Hotel Street excursions.

Blond, blue-eyed Dan Pressman seemed more alert, and was watching Bill the way a parent watches a child.

I am the only pressman who knows them, and I have good reason for keeping my knowledge to myself!

The law-abiding Briton is so imbued with the idea of the sanctity of human life that it was hard for the young pressman to realise that these men had every intention of killing him, and that he was at perfect liberty to do as much for them.