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push
noun
uk /pʊʃ/us
[ S ] MARKETING
an effort to make something more successful, for example by advertising it a lot or giving it extra money:
The event is part of a major push by the hotel to attract customers.
get a pushThis film is unlikely to attract large audiences unless it gets a big push in the media.
give sth a pushThis is an economy that needs the Fed to step in and give it a push.
[ C ]
a determined effort to get an advantage over other companies in business:
make a push into sthThe company plans to make a big push into the European market next spring.
 give sb the push
WORKPLACE, HR UKinformal
to tell someone that they no longer have a job, especially because they have done something wrong:
I have no idea why they gave me the push.
 get the push
WORKPLACE, HR UKinformal
to be told that you no longer have a job, especially because you have done something wrong:
Sounds like he hasn't come to terms with getting the push.

Examples of push

push
However, it is hard to push the analysis of the random process to the very end using differential equations.
However, these new workers in the city demand the agricultural good, pushing the price higher, and reducing the real wage further.
When she described being removed from a train by the police and pushed to the floor, one could sense the intensity of the personal insult.
When they push a case continuation framework, they save in the stack the free variables needed by the continuation expression.
The effect of downregulating the signalling pathways is to push deterioration back in time, not to prevent it.
The clinicians' difficulties are further compounded by the older adult often having internalised the media version, so pushing down and distorting their own experiences.
On financial services, the policy initiative was in the hands of the corporate lobbyists who pushed for a project which was eventually implemented.
One disadvantage of this method is that the outputs are then pushed toward final states, which creates a long delay in emission.
Or does the radicle elongate to the extent of pushing against the endosperm before endosperm degradation begins?
Near the downstream boundaries of large structures, parts of small structures are pushed downwards towards the centreline of the wake (figure 14b).
Merchant-dominated organizations (like the municipality) were likewise pushed aside, either through ruling-family appointments to their leadership or outright sequestration.
The push-pull model of relocation decisions suggests that an older person exercises choice among various options.
Alternative agendas pushed forward by non 'visually skilled' citizens have none of their resonance.
I am afraid this is pushing the point too far.
However, the 'land to the tiller' script was still powerful enough to dissuade the parties from pushing through the change fearing a political backlash.
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Collocations withpush

push

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big push
The local authorities need a bigpush.
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