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budge | American Dictionary

budge
verb[ I/T ]
us/bʌdʒ/
to move or cause someone or something to move:
[ I ]The demonstrators would not budge from the governor’s office.
[ T ]We tried to open a window but couldn’t budge any of them.

Examples of budge

budge
The metabolic theory's authors are not budging.
The administration did not budge this time, though, on the grounds that improved rest house facilities made servants unnecessary.
Pushing a car but it does not budge: no energy is transferred, because your force does not move.
Neither the physicians nor hospital administrators would budge.
If actor-networks are tightly formed and impenetrable, and contexts and circumstances are not conducive to change, no amount of rational argument will budge a policy from its pedestal.
The officer had now added a series of conditions to the union's demand though management was still refusing to budge on the principle of their right to declare redundancies.
Compared to the total stasis of the other big players, not one of whom budged an inch?
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
However, it should not budge one inch on the conditions put forward regarding emissions.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
All of us remember the long debates which took place in the eighties, when everyone refused to budge from their opposing camps.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I wonder whether they are really budging now.
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