push back
English
Verb
push back (third-person singular simple present pushes back, present participle pushing back, simple past and past participle pushed back)
- To refute or argue against a position or an accusation; to express one's own view on a situation.
- The scandal is growing legs. We need to start pushing back.
- To postpone.
- The Friday meeting keeps getting pushed back to the following week.
- (migration) To summarily expel asylum seekers, especially in violation of the principle of non-refoulement.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, back.
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