pressing concern

collocation in English

meaningsofpressingandconcern

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pressing
adjective
uk
/ˈpres.ɪŋ/us
/ˈpres.ɪŋ/
urgent or needing to be dealt ...
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concern
noun
uk
/kənˈsɜːn/us
/kənˈsɝːn/
a worried or nervous feeling about something, or something that makes you ...
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(Definition ofpressingandconcernfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpressing concern

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For them, of much morepressingconcernwas the imminent subsistence crisis compounded by increasing and seemingly arbitrary fiscal demands on their already overstretched resources.
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Apressingconcernof the administrators of units where families complained was to correct the problem so that they could ' sell the unit' to new families.
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A morepressingconcernwas the loss of noxious or toxic cargoes on or close to fishing grounds.
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However, the mostpressingconcernis drug trafficking.
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The basic question of the pension is the mostpressingconcernfor all pensioners.
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This matter is of the mostpressingconcernfor hundreds of people in isolated villages.
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It is of mostpressingconcernto the road haulage industry.
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Anotherpressingconcernis the disappearance of, or change in, the range of international trains that is therefore not being identified.
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It is perfectly natural that when we look at different commissioners, we see that each tries to make a priority of the issue that is his mostpressingconcern.
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Likewise, the prospect of landfills becoming full is apressingconcernthat all local authorities and national politicians must address.
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Theirpressingconcern, and ours, is for a resolution to the teachers' dispute.
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My mostpressingconcernis public reassurance.
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Those are issues ofpressingconcernin the south, north, east and west of my constituency.
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This is our priority andpressingconcern.
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The sensitive issue of how to defend the capital from air attack became apressingconcernfor urban planners, government officials, and even fiction writers.
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The fate of animals and plants became apressingconcern.
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As power became an increasinglypressingconcern, each tool independently added the features needed.
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This issue is also apressingconcernwith our service men and women.
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Moreover, the fear of opening the floodgates of litigation could be anotherpressingconcern.
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