pressed for time
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
in a hurry, without spare time.
Example Sentences
- "So as neither of them were particularly pressed for time, as it happened, and the temperature refreshing since it cleared up after the recent visitation of Jupiter Pluvius, they dandered along past by where the empty vehicle was waiting without a fare or a jarvey"
- "He seemed to be pressed for time and I gathered that telephoning at all was rather risky."
- "But as our urban lives have grown more pressed for time, we have diced our opportunity costs finer and finer; from budgeting days or slabs of hours, we have come to rationing minutes."