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Push Forward

Definition: Push Forward

Push Forward

Verb

1. Push one's way; "she barged into the meeting room".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Push Forward

Synonyms: barge (v), thrust ahead (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Push Forward

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Activity

Verb: be active; Adjective: busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's way; make progress; toll; (labor); plod, persist; (persevere) a; keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling.

Aid

Relieve, rescue; set up, set agoing, set on one's legs; bear through, pull through; give new life to, be the making of; reinforce, reenforce, recruit; set forward, put forward, push forward; give a lift, give a shove, give an impulse to; promote, further, forward, advance

Sequence

Verb: advance; proceed, progress; get on, get along, get over the ground; gain ground; forge ahead; jog on, rub on, wag on; go with the stream; keep one;s course, hold on one's course; go on, move on, come one, get on, pass on, push on, press on, go forward, move forward, come forward, get forward, pass forward, push forward, press forward, go forwards, move forwards, come forwards, get forwards, pass forwards, push forwards, press forwards, go ahead, move ahead, come ahead, get ahead, pass ahead, push ahead, press ahead; make one's way, work one's way, carve one's way, push one's way, force one's way, edge one's way, elbow one's way; make progress, make head, make way, make headway, make advances, make strides, make rapid strides; (velocity); go ahead, shoot ahead; distance; make up leeway.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Push Forward

Specialty definitions using "push forward": erector operatorhydraulic operatorshield operator, SHIELD RUNNER. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Push Forward

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Indonesia

Initiating a virtuous cycle in Indonesia will depend on the degree to which the GOI can push forward economic reforms that have lagged since mid-2000. (references)

Indonesia

In order to limit the cost of any follow-on bank recapitalization program, the GOI will need to aggressively court foreign investors and push forward its broader economic reform program in order to improve the operating environment for banks. (references)

Political Economy

SAUDI ARABIA

In mid-October 2001, the GCC announced that it will redraft the tariff agreement to meet the Saudi rates and will push forward the date of implementation for the customs union to 2003. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Push Forward

Language Translations for "push forward"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shtyhem përpara, nxjerr në pah (foil, heighten, highlight, point out, silhouette). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

тласкам напред (push, put forward), вървя напред, напредвам (advance, develop, forge ahead, gain, get on, go, go ahead, move, move on, move onwards, proceed, progress, push, push on, push up, roll, walk), мъча се да пробутам, лансирам (boost, bring out, initiate, launch, push, put up, sell), бутам напред. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

推動 (to promote, to push, to push forward). (various references)

   

Czech

  

odstrèit (push aside, push away, put aside, set aside, set back), drát se. (various references)

   

German

  

vorstoßen (advance, attack, venture). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elõretol, elõretör (forge ahead, shoot ahead), elõrenyomul (advance), elõrehalad (progress). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menyorongkan (shove, slide something forward). (various references)

   

Italian

  

perseverare (keep, persevere, persist, soldier on), mettersi in mostra, avanzare (advance, advanced, be left, broach, draw, drive, go forward, limp, progress, put forward, wear on). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

邁進 (struggle on). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

まいし" (struggle on). (various references)

   

Manx

  

ooillian, broo er oai. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ushpay orwardfay

   

Russian 

  

стремиться вперед, продвинуть (move on). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ići dalje (get a move on, move on, push on). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

empujar hacia adelante (thrust forward), avanzar (advance, come forward, come on, develop, encroach, forward, go forward, go off, go on, lumber, lurch along, move, move along, move in, proceed, push on, thrust forward, toil, track, trundle on). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tränga sig fram (jostle, press, push one's way forward, push through), rycka fram (debouch). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ilerletmek (advance, carry forward, cultivate, drive on, forward, further, improve, prosecute, set forward, take forward). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

поспішати (be in haste, bustle, hasten, hie, hurry, scurry, speed, swiften). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Push Forward

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

promoveo promovi promotum, propellere. (various references)

Old French900-1400

boter. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Push Forward

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-f-h-o-p-r-r-s-u-w"

-3 letters: dhourras, forwards, uphoards.

-4 letters: ardours, dhourra, dourahs, farrows, forward, froward, furrows, harrows, purdahs, pushrod, sparrow, uphoard, uproars, upwards.

-5 letters: ardors, ardour, arrows, dourah, douras, durras, dwarfs, farrow, frauds, furors, furrow, harrow, hoards, parous, pharos, prahus, prowar, purdah, purdas, sapour, shadow, shaduf, shofar, shroud, uproar, upsoar, upward, washup, wharfs, whaups.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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