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press box en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The section in a stadium or arena set aside for the press, or specifically for sportscasters.
    • In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level. 2006, George Gmelch, J.J. Weiner, In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People, →ISBN, page 151:
  2. In a cotton gin, the box in which lint is compacted by a tramper.
    • In most gins cotton is packaged in a "double-box" press wherein the lint is initially compacted in one press box by a mechanical or hydraulic tramper. 1998, “Production and Ginning of Cotton”, in Jeanne Mager Stellman, editor, Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 89.7:
  3. Synonym of mult box.

Forms

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press boxes Number=Plur lexicographic
pressbox alternative lexicographic

Synonyms

mult box