press
I
noun
authors, columnists, commentators, contributors, correspondents, editors, interviewers, journalistic writers, journalists, literary publications, media, members of the media, members of the press, news business, news gatherers, newsmen, newspaper world, newspaperman, newspapers, newswriters, publicists, publishers, reporters
associated concepts: censorship, First Amendment, freedom of speech, freedom of the press
II
(beseech) verb
adjure, appeal, ask earnestly, beg, call upon, enjoin, entreat, exhort, impetrate, implore, importune, petition, plead, request, supplicate, urge, urgere
III
(constrain) verb
bear down on, bind, bring pressure to bear, coerce, command, compel, decree, demand, drive, enforce, exact, extort, force, impel, impose, insist, make, make necessary, necessitate, obligate, oblige, order, put pressure on, put under obligation, require, take no denial, urge forward, wring
IV
(goad) verb
aggravate, agonize, annoy, badger, beset, bother, browbeat, carp at, disquiet, drive, harry, heckle, hector, hound, incite, instigare, instigate, irritate, molest, persecute, pester, plague, prod, provoke, put pressure on, stir up, taunt, tease, torment, trouble, vex, worry
V
index
attach (seize), bait (lure), call (appeal to), call (demand), claim (demand), coax, coerce, compel, constrain (compel), constrict (compress), demand, desire, duress, enforce, exact, exhort, exigency, force (coerce), hasten, impact, impede, importune, impose (enforce), incite, inculcate, insist, jostle (bump into), lobby, motivate, plead (implore), pray, pressure (noun), pressure (verb), prompt, solicit, spirit, urge, weigh
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006