English

Press box at a stadium.

Alternative forms

• pressbox

Noun

press box ‎(plural press boxes)

1. (sports) The section in a stadium or arena set aside for the press, or specifically for sportscasters.
   • 2006, George Gmelch and J.J. Weiner, In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People, ISBN 0803271271, page 151:

     In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level.

2. (manufacturing) In a cotton gin, the box in which lint is compacted by a tramper.
   • 1998, “Production and Ginning of Cotton”, in Jeanne Mager Stellman, editor, Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety, 4th edition, ISBN 9221092038, page 89.7:

     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.