<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.</li><li>Physics: force per unit area.</li><li>Meteorology: atmospheric pressure.</li><li>Electricity: electromotive force.</li><li>the state of being pressed or compressed.</li><li>harassment; oppression: the pressures of daily life.</li><li>a constraining or compelling force or influence: the social pressures of city life; financial pressure.</li><li>urgency, as of affairs or business: He works well under pressure.</li><li>Obsolete: that which is impressed.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>pressured, pressuring: to force (someone) toward a particular end; influence: They pressured him into accepting the contract.</li></ul>