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press money

noun

British Obsolete.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of press money1

First recorded in 1550–60
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Example Sentences

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The same stewardess who let the large white woman gawk at us and press money into Fern’s hand wasn’t so quick to hand us over to the woman I said was our mother.

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Among the gifts, according to the Associated Press: money, free vacation travel and truckloads of granite for Stone Age LLC, a business Nagin and his sons owned.

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They might one day press money into your palm.

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So, taking a cavalier from a man's hand, she performed the exercise with such dexterity that they wondered, whereupon she said—"Press no man, but give me press money and I will go myself."

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Meg's Fellow Servant pressed; her Usage of the Constable; and of her taking Press Money to go to Boulogne.

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