📒 newspapers and magazines
- the local/national/foreign press
- the popular/tabloid press (= newspapers with a lot of pictures and stories about famous people)
- the music/sporting press (= newspapers and magazines about music/sport)
📒 the journalists and photographers who work for newspapers and magazines
- The Press was/were not allowed to attend the trial.
- She has been harassed by the press, who desperately need a story.
- He told the press that there had been ‘further progress’.
📒 the type or amount of reports that newspapers write about somebody/something
- The airline has had a bad press recently (= journalists have written unpleasant things about it).
- The demonstration got very little press.
- His latest novel didn't get (a) very good press (= was not praised in the media).
📒 a machine for printing books, newspapers, etc.; the process of printing them
- We were able to watch the books rolling off the presses.
- These prices are correct at the time of going to press.
- a story that is hot off the press (= has just appeared in the newspapers)
📒 a business that prints and publishes books
📒 a piece of equipment that is used for creating pressure on things, to make them flat or to get liquid from them
- a trouser press
- a garlic press
📒 an act of pushing something with your hand or with a tool that you are holding
- He gave the bell another press.
- Those shirts need a press (= with an iron).
📒 a large number of people or things competing for space or movement
- the press of bodies all moving the same way
- Among the press of cars he glimpsed a taxi.
📒 a large cupboard, usually with shelves, for holding clothes, books, etc.