high-pressure
high-pres·sure • adj. 1. involving a high degree of activity and exertion; stressful: he worked in a high-pressure advertising job. ∎ (of a salesperson or sales pitch) employing a high degree of coercion; insistent: high-pressure marketing tactics.2. involving or using much physical force: high-pressure jets of freezing water.3. denoting a condition of the atmosphere with the pressure above average (e.g., in an anticyclone).
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