high-pressure

Thân thiện

A high-pressure salesperson speaks quickly to a customer in a store.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Using forceful and persistent methods to persuade or sell: Describes an aggressive, insistent approach, often in sales, marketing, or negotiation, that applies significant psychological pressure to achieve a result.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • He was known as a high-pressure salesman who wouldn't take no for an answer.
  • The company uses high-pressure tactics to get customers to sign contracts immediately.
  • I dislike high-pressure advertising that makes unrealistic promises.

Advanced Usage

• "high-pressure environment/job": A workplace or role characterized by constant demands, tight deadlines, and significant stress, though this is a distinct, common extension of the core meaning related to forceful persuasion.
  • Working in the emergency room is a high-pressure environment.

Variants and Related Words

• High-pressure (verb, hyphenated): To subject someone to aggressive persuasion. (Less common)
  • They tried to high-pressure me into buying the extended warranty.

Synonyms

• Hard-hitting: Forcefully direct and effective.
• Aggressive: Behaving in a forceful, pushy manner.
• Persistent: Continuing firmly in a course of action despite difficulty.
• Pushy: Excessively or unpleasantly self-assertive.

Related Phrases

• High-pressure sales: A specific field or style characterized by the adjective's meaning.
  • The seminar warned about falling victim to high-pressure sales.

Related Idioms

• To put the hard sell on (someone): To use high-pressure tactics to persuade someone to buy something.
  • As soon as I walked in, they put the hard sell on me.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. aggressively and persistently persuasive
   • a hard-hitting advertising campaign
   • a high-pressure salesman

Từ đồng nghĩa

• hard-hitting