pressing need
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpressingandneed
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pressing
adjective
uk/ˈpres.ɪŋ/us/ˈpres.ɪŋ/
urgent or needing to be dealt ...
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need
noun
uk/niːd/us/niːd/
the state of having to have something that you do not have, especially something that you must have so that you can have a ...
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(Definition ofpressingandneedfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpressing need
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Thepressingneedfor railroads was often voiced.
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Thepressingneedof these patients is to control the pain and maintain physical function.
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Such prospects were often at their brightest when there was apressingneedfor farm labor.
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In addition, there is an equallypressingneedto understand the connections between brain and mind.
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Thepressingneedis for data of the requisite accuracy and variety.
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There is thus apressingneedto efficiently create significant volumes of annotated material.
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There was apressingneedfor the improvement and extension of the transport and communications infrastructure.
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This situation creates apressingneedand an opportunity, both of which motivate our work.
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This highlights thepressingneedfor standard assessment and eligibility criteria.
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We recognise thatpressingneed.
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Based on the epidemiological data of our study, there is apressingneedto implement control measures on this population.
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There is apressingneedfor good empirical research to establish the net effects with some confidence.
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This means not only considering the relationship of poverty to health, although that certainly remains apressingneed.
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Taken together, these volumes illustrate both the dangers of the synthesising imagination and thepressingneedfor it.
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Consequently, other explanations are required to explain thepressingneedthat medical officials saw for new regulations.
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It is a real andpressingneed.
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That certainly is a verypressingneed.
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The mostpressingneedis secondary education.
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We have apressingneedfor assistance.
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But this is not apressingneed.
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This is the morepressingneed.
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This is the mostpressingneed.
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Scientists have nopressingneedto come and lobby us.
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There is apressingneedfor something to be done.
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