User:Ksnortum/pushback

English

Verb

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(Usually push back)

1. To repel an invasion or incursion by force or influence. To cause an enemy to retreat.

Noun

pushback (plural pushbacks)

(Also push back or push-back)

1. The act of repelling an enemy
2. A procedure in which an aircraft is pushed backwards away from the gate by some external force, usually a special tractor.
3. Criticism of or resistance to a proposal, stance, or event.

References

Noun, Sense Three

• "Across the spectrum of conservative media there has been a forthright pushback against McCain as the party’s potential standard-bearer." Politico story on John McCain. Feb 1 2008
• "Conservatives push back against McCain", alternate spelling in the headline from above story.
• "I really do appreciate the 'pushback.' I'm learning a great deal from all of you." Blog by ABC newsman Terry Moran, on being corrected by his readers. Feb 17, 2007
• "Obama Pushback On the Drudge Photo Flap" ABC News headline, Feb 25 2008
• "Pushback Against Perceived Power Grab" Inside Higher Ed article on changes in the federal accrediting rules. Mar 27 2007
• "I suggest asking, 'Why are we doing what we’re doing...' instead of, 'How will we handle pushback?'" Ted Eytan in a blog about health care systems. Oct 1 2007
• "Protest and Pushback on Campus" The Nation magazine headline, Oct 12 2005
• "Moreover, when Democrats, notably former House minority leader Richard Gephardt, finally put their heads up in the late spring of 2002 to ask questions about that Aug. 6, 2001, memo warning of the possibility of terrorist attacks, the Republican pushback was furious." Washington Post op-ed article on Bill Clinton. Sept 28 2006
• "...imagine the surprise of UWM’s ever-so politically correct administrators, who now quite unexpectedly find themselves facing a conservative student pushback on issues ranging from free speech to the allocation of millions of dollars in student fees." [1]
• "More pushback from Hill on eavesdropping", headline of an article by Peter Grier in The Christian Science Monitory. March 01 2006