pressed+for+time
1pressed for time — If you are pressed for time, you are in a hurry or working against a very tight schedule …
2pressed for time — If you are pressed for time, you are in a hurry or working against a very tight schedule. (Dorking School Dictionary) *** If you are pressed for time, you have hardly enough time to do something, so you must hurry. Sorry, I can t… …
3pressed for time — adjective in a hurry, without spare time. So as neither of them were particularly pressed for time, as it happened, and the temperature refreshing since it cleared up after the recent visitation of Jupiter Pluvius, they dandered along past by… …
4pressed for time — have barely enough time He was pressed for time so I didn t have a chance to speak to him …
5pressed for time — feeling that you have to hurry and are late. I was pressed for time to finish my business and catch my plane …
6pressed for time — without much time, running out of time, in a hurry …
7pressed adj, be - for time — Dry cleaners are often pressed for time …
8be pressed for — you shouldn t schedule an interview when you are pressed for time Syn: have too little, be short of, have insufficient, lack, be lacking (in), be deficient in, need, be/stand in need of; informal be strapped for …
9pressed — [prest] adj be pressed for time/money etc to not have enough time, money etc …
10pressed — [[t]pre̱st[/t]] ADJ GRADED: v link ADJ, usu ADJ for n If you say that you are pressed for time or pressed for money, you mean that you do not have enough time or money at the moment. → See also hard pressed Are you pressed for time, Mr Bayliss?… …
