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pressworks

pressworks is the plural of presswork.

Meaning of presswork

Noun

presswork (countable and uncountable, plural pressworks)

  1. The operation of a printing press.
  2. Printed material.
  3. The act or process of pressing or drawing with dies or presses; or the product of such work.
  4. (cabinet-making) Work consisting of a series of cross-grained veneers united by glue, heat, and pressure.
  5. Pottery produced by pressing clay into moulds.

Questions about pressworks

What is pressworks the plural of?
Pressworks is the plural of presswork.

Words near pressworks in the dictionary

  1. Presswood
  2. Presswoods
  3. presswork
  4. pressworker
  5. pressworkers
  6. pressworks
  7. pressy
  8. prest
  9. prest money
  10. Presta
  11. prestability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pressworks (page history and authors); presswork (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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