Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Energetic; enterprising.
- adjective Aggressive; forward; presuming.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pressing forward in business; putting one's self forward; self-assertive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
push . - verb
Dealing illicit drugs , especially to minors. - adjective That pushes forward;
pressing ,driving . - adjective Aggressively
assertive ;pushy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of applying force in order to move something away
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Examples
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After spending the first two years of his term pushing greater federal spending to fight the effects of the great recession, he largely ignored recommendations to cut deficits by his own bipartisan commission headed by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, and did not propose any significant deficit reductions in his Feb. 1 budget proposal to Congress.
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After spending the first two years of his term pushing greater federal spending to fight the effects of the great recession, he largely ignored recommendations to cut deficits by his own bipartisan commission headed by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, and did not propose any significant deficit reductions in his Feb. 1 budget proposal to Congress.
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“That happened to me when it came to the expression pushing the envelope,” Mr. Wolfe continued, enclosing a clipping from The New York Times with the headline, “Pushing the Bleeping Envelope.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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“That happened to me when it came to the expression pushing the envelope,” Mr. Wolfe continued, enclosing a clipping from The New York Times with the headline, “Pushing the Bleeping Envelope.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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“That happened to me when it came to the expression pushing the envelope,” Mr. Wolfe continued, enclosing a clipping from The New York Times with the headline, “Pushing the Bleeping Envelope.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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“That happened to me when it came to the expression pushing the envelope,” Mr. Wolfe continued, enclosing a clipping from The New York Times with the headline, “Pushing the Bleeping Envelope.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Lots of clay will make completions somewhat tricky but if they didn't think they could handle it you wouldn't see the name pushing half a million acres here.
unknown title 2011
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Also, he mistakenly stated that the phrase "pushing the envelope" dates to WWII.
Slate Magazine 2011
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That's just a felony: spending the first year of your term pushing an ABC plan that is laughable is the real crime.
Killing the Messenger: Who will dare give His Excellency the bad news? 2010
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It's what we call pushing everything in the forward lean.
bilby commented on the word pushing
"I saw that love was a game that two people couldn't play at without pushing, just like football."
- Frank O'Connor, 'The Genius'.
September 5, 2008
bilby commented on the word pushing
"Matassa appears to be pushing a good race here."
- commentator wheelchair 400m race at the Paralympics, 11 Sep 2008.
September 11, 2008