pressure group

US pronunciation

American soundpressure group

pressuregroup

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

pressure - group -> pressure group

Myanmar meaning

ပြည်သူ့သဘောထားကို လွှမ်းမိုးစေရန် ဖွဲ့စည်းထားသော အုပ်စု။

Full entry

pressure /'preʃǝ(r)/ n

၁။ [U] (က) ဖိအား။ တွန်းအား။ the pressure of the crowd against the barriers ❍ The pressure of the water caused the dam to burst.
(ခ) ဖိအား ပမာဏ။ exert/maintain/relieve pressure on sth ❍ pump up/reduce the tyre pressure ❍ apply gentle pressure to stop the flow of blood ❍ water passing through the pipes at high pressure ❍ a pressure chamber ❍ a pressure gauge (ie an instrument for measuring the pressure of liquid, gas, air, etc). See also BLOOD PRESSURE
၂။ [U] လေထုဖိအား။ A band of high/low pressure is moving across the country. See also ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
၃။ [U, C] (~ of sth ); ~ (to do sth) (အလုပ်၊ လူနေမှုသဘာဝအရ) သောက၊ အခက်အခဲ ဖိစီးမှုဒဏ်။ She has very little free time because of pressure of work. ❍ The pressures of city life forced him to move to the country.
v = PRESSURIZE ၁
❏ bring pressure to bear on sb (to do sth) [IDM ] ဩဇာအရှိန်အဝါသုံး၍ ဖိခိုင်းသည်။ The council brought pressure to bear on the landlord to improve his property.
❏ pressure-cooker n လေလုံပေါင်းအိုး။ ❍ PAN¹
❏ pressure group n [CGp] (အစိုးရ၊ အဖွဲ့အစည်း တစ်ရပ်ကို) ၎င်းတို့ဦးတည်သည့် ကိစ္စတစ်ရပ်အတွက် နည်းအမျိုးမျိုးဖြင့် အရေးဆိုသောအဖွဲ့။ an environmental pressure group trying to stop the building of a new motorway.
❏ put pressure on sb (to do sth) [IDM ] အပူတပြင်း လုပ်ခိုင်းသည်။ ဖိအားပေးသည်။ put pressure on sb to make a decision ❍ The birth of twins put pressure on them to find a bigger house.
❏ under pressure [IDM ]
၁။ ဘူးတွင်းသွတ်သွင်း ဖိထည့်ထားသော (အရည်၊ ဓာတ်ငွေ့)။ The gas is stored under pressure in the tank. ❍ The beer comes out of the barrel under pressure.
၂။ ဖုတ်ပူမီးတိုက် လုပ်ရသော၊ လုပ်စေသော။ work under pressure ❍ put sb/come under pressure (to do sth).
၃။ သောကဖိစီးမှု။ She is constantly under pressure and it is affecting her health.

More examples

[pressure for] : Pressure for political change increased in the 1990s.
[pressure on someone (to do something)] : There is now greater pressure on the White House to take action.
[under pressure to do something] : The council is still under pressure to reduce spending.
[under pressure from someone] : Under pressure from France, Germany has finally dropped its proposals.
[pressure on someone (to do something)] : He did not put any pressure on her to take the job.
[bring pressure to bear on someone (to do something)] : Officials were bringing pressure to bear on the government to stop the war.
[] : He would not give in to pressure from his family to come home.
[pressure on] : The pressure on prison officers is well documented.
[under pressure] : With greatly increased workloads, everyone is under pressure now.
[stand the pressure] : If you can’t stand the pressure, you should resign.
The pressures of modern life
She became conscious of the pressure of his hand on her shoulder.
Atmospheric/air/water pressure
[pressure] : An area of high pressure over the Atlantic
The influence in house-building reflects demographic pressures in this part of the country.
Inflationary pressures that may force interest rates to rise

Synonyms

force, weight, heaviness, adversity, affliction, albatross, anxiety, bother, bulldoze, bully, bundle of nerves, burden, care, choke, clout, coerce, coercion, come at, compel, compressing, compression, compulsion, confinement, constrain, constraint, crunch, crushing, demand, demands, density, difficulty, discipline, distress, drag, drive, duress, encumbrance, exigency, fluttery, full court press, gravity, hardship, hassle, heat, hurry, hyper, impel, in a tizzy, influence, inside track, insist, keyed up, lean on, load, mass, minority, misfortune, necessity, nervous wreck, obligation, overanxious, persuasion, physical force, politick, power, press, pressure cooker, pressurize, pull, push, push around, requirement, rush, sell, shear, shot to pieces, squeeze, squeezing, strain, strength, stress, stressful, strung out, sway, tense, tension, thrust, trouble, twist arm, unnaturalness, up the wall, urge, urgency, white knuckled, work over, wrecker

Antonyms

advantage, aid, assistance, benefit, blessing, comfort, dissuade, ease, facility, favor, freedom, health, help, impotence, incapacity, incompetence, leave alone, peace, powerlessness, pull, relaxation, repress, retard, slow, unimportance, weakness