Press Newspapers Pres Magazines Story Freedom Extra Examples

• 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 mainstream press is ignoring this story.

press

1. newspapers and magazines
• SEE ALSO gutter press
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/the-gutter-press
• 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 mainstream press is ignoring this story.
• Unlike the American, the British press operates on a national scale.
• The case has been widely reported in the press.
• the freedom of the Press/press freedom (= the freedom to report any events and express opinions)
• The event is bound to attract wide press coverage (= it will be written about in many newspapers).
• According to French press reports, three people have been killed.
• a White House press briefing

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• He issued a press statement insisting on his innocence.
• He kept a scrapbook containing press cuttings of his concerts.
• The right-wing press tried to stir up prejudice against immigrants.
• There was no mention of the incident in the national press.
• She is constantly being attacked by the press.
2. 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’.
• She told them not to talk to the press.

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• Did the senator deliberately mislead the press?
• She showed the doorman her press pass.
• Someone must have alerted the press that she was going to be there.
• The company's press office did not return the call.
• The president was briefed before meeting the press.
• The spokesman addressed an international press corps.
• They introduced measures including muzzling the press and illegal detainment.
• We got to sit in the press box since my dad would be writing about the game.
3. 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).
4. a machine for printing books, newspapers, etc.; the process of printing them
• SEE ALSO printing press
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/printing-press
• 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)

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• The newspaper goes to press at 6 o'clock.
• The presses are already rolling.
• Their new book is in press.
5. a business that prints and publishes books
• Oxford University Press
6. a piece of equipment that is used for creating pressure on things, to make them flat or to get liquid from them
• SEE ALSO French press™
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/french-presstm
• a trouser press
• a garlic press
7. 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).
8. a large number of people or things competing for space or movement
• SYNONYM throng
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/throng_2
• the press of bodies all moving the same way
• Among the press of cars he glimpsed a taxi.
9. a large cupboard, usually with shelves, for holding clothes, books, etc.

Word Origin

• noun Middle English: from Old French presse (noun), presser (verb), from Latin pressare ‘keep pressing’, frequentative of premere.