What is a "high-pressure business"?
I suppose it is a business in which people are often under high pressure, or a highly competitive business, but I still wanted to check here.
I came across it in a dialogue from a crime series:
Lee works in a high-pressure business with lots of money at stake. The phone could go any minute, telling him he had to be on a plane the other side of the world on some multimillion deal. There were things he couldn't tell me about who he met, where he was going. He had security reviews three or four times a year. He didn't have a laptop in case he put sensitive information on it and it was stolen. Things like that.
Since Lee was murdered, and from the paragraph above, it is obvious that Lee's job was risky and dangerous. I was wondering whether, in general and not necessary in the context of previous paragraph, expression "high-pressure business" has some other connotation.
LATER EDIT: My dictionary gives, among others, these two meanings
high-pressure (adj.) fig.: Urgent; intense; as, a high-pressure business or social life
high-pressure (adj.) Using intense psychological pressure or other incentives to convince others to do things; aggressively persistent; as, high-pressure salesmen; high-pressure tactics.
In paragraph above, does "high-pressure business" refers to urgent, intense nature of the business (a phone could ring in the middle of the night, and in the next moment person is in the plane flying to the other side of the world to make a business deal), or high-pressure tactics used in the business that in the end escalated to Lee's murder? Or is it actually ambiguous?
