pressing importance

collocation in English

meaningsofpressingandimportance

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pressing
adjective
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/ˈpres.ɪŋ/us
/ˈpres.ɪŋ/
urgent or needing to be dealt ...
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importance
noun[U]
uk
/ɪmˈpɔː.təns/us
/ɪmˈpɔːr.təns/
the quality of ...
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(Definition ofpressingandimportancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpressing importance

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I am afraid that whatever time it would take would be taken away from business of the mostpressingimportance.
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This is a problem of the greatest and mostpressingimportance.
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That is not what is ofpressingimportanceat the moment.
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There is one other reason why this matter has becoming one ofpressingimportance.
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The realpressingimportanceof this problem is by the admission of everyone not in skilled but in unskilled trades.
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This is not a matter for which we can wait until the end of the war; it is ofpressingimportancenow.
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It ceases to be a question of immediate andpressingimportance.
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I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate and raise issues that are ofpressingimportanceto my constituents.
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The future is ofpressingimportanceto those men, and we ought to know what that future is to be.
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I am quite aware of thepressingimportanceof the matter, and we are trying to find some solution if we can.
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When one speaks before an audience of three people, whether one bores them or not is of somewhat lesspressingimportance.
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We all believe that there will be many matters ofpressingimportancecoming before us between now and the general election.
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Their reasons for doing so are not always financial, although that may be ofpressingimportancein some cases.
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These are matters of verypressingimportanceindeed; and there are also the environmentally sensitive areas (which we shall be discussing tomorrow): the national parks, the areas of outstanding beauty.
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In the last generation or more, certain changes have come over the relationship between university and country, and there are today certain facts which are ofpressingimportance.
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All of this reinforces the idea that it is of vital,pressingimportanceto adopt a legal instrument that ensures personal data protection outside the first pillar.
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I appreciate what he says, but we must get the debate moving, because next year other transport matters ofpressingimportancewill need to be considered.
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I do not think it is any exaggeration to say that probably no question is of morepressingimportance to the country than is the question of transport and communication.
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Is it a matter ofpressingimportance?
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