push back
English
Noun
push back (plural push backs)
- Alternative spelling of pushback
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.
- Summarily expelling asylum seekers, especially when violating the principle of non-refoulement
- 2021 May 5, “Revealed: 2,000 refugee deaths linked to illegal EU pushbacks”, in The Guardian[1]:
- EU member states have used illegal operations to push back at least 40,000 asylum seekers from Europe’s borders during the pandemic