1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Pushing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Energetic; enterprising.

adj. Aggressive; forward; presuming.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Present participle of push.

v. Dealing illicit drugs, especially to minors.

adj. That pushes forward; pressing, driving.

adj. Aggressively assertive; pushy.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Pressing forward in business; putting one's self forward; self-assertive.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of applying force in order to move something away

Word Usage

"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."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

propulsion actuation

Hyponym

pressing jog nudge press pressure

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

enterprising driving energetic ambitious

Verb Stem

push

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Cushing