big push

collocation in English

meaningsofbigandpush

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big
adjective
uk
/bɪɡ/us
/bɪɡ/
large in size ...
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push
noun
uk
/pʊʃ/us
/pʊʃ/
the act of moving someone or something by pressing them with your hands ...
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(Definition ofbigandpushfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbig push

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The local authorities need abigpush.
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The fact is that the "bigpush" has begun.
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Thebigpushis the free fruit in schools scheme.
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We were going to make abigpush.
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We then got the stand-off and thebigpushat the bridge.
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Now, there is abigpushback.
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That is the way in which thebigpushcan be made towards the necessary percentage increase in exports.
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We have had thebigpush—we had problems in the coal industry, we had problems in the steel industry.
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It is the area in which to make abigpushfor sales and joint venture manufactures.
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In respect of the latter point, we are making abigpushtowards conflict resolution in different forums.
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As has been said, thebigpushtowards recycling has become a mainstream political activity only in the past decade or so.
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It was making a response before, but there is need for abigpushon the sales side of the electricity supply industry.
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These indivisibilities are responsible for external economies and thus justify the need for abigpush.
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We are aware that after thebigpushto relieve debt in 2000, it has been hard to keep the issue high up on the agenda.
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There are clear difficulties and many regulatory authorities had not got their act together by the time that there was abigpushfor personal pensions.
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It has not yet fallen over, but if it were given a very small push—and this particular tax will give it quite abigpush—it would topple over altogether.
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These engineers worked mainly from schematics and netlists in the late 1980s, and thebigpushwas to generate the netlists from the schematics automatically.
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Finding himself trapped in the trenches with anotherbigpushplanned, his concern is to avoid being sent over the top to certain death.
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These men had overthrown the hawkish officers, who had called for abigpush, which meant an increase in violent attacks, earlier in the same month.
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