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Plural of pressure

regular plural

The plural of pressure is pressures.

Forms of pressure

Singularpressure /ˈpɹɛʃə/
Pluralpressures
Countablecountable and uncountable

Pressures in a sentence

  • The nurse spent all day taking blood pressures at the hospital.From the entry blood pressure
  • We should not give in to the pressures of the moment, but instead think long-term.From the entry of the moment
  • The fiercely competitive pressures of shareholder capitalism will also impose a remorseless logic of their own.2026 April 18, John Thornhill, “Lunch with the FT: Dario Amodei”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd.…. From the entry shareholder capitalism
  • Flora Beverley, a British runfluencer, concedes that social media creates pressures to perform.2024 March 22, “Why cheat in marathons?”, in The Economist. From the entry runfluencer
  • In fact, our research shows that TPS actually decreases the pressures driving such migration.2023 October 5, Ben Helms, David Leblang, Tom Jawetz, “Opinion: A smart and humane answer on immigration”, in CNN, archived from the…. From the entry TPS

Meaning of pressure

  1. noun A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
  2. noun The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.
  3. noun An amount of pressure.

Full definition of pressure

Questions about the plural of pressure

What is the plural of pressure?
The plural of pressure is pressures.
Is pressure countable?
Pressure is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pressure (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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