push for sth
— phrasal verb with push uk/pʊʃ/us/pʊʃ/verb
to demand something repeatedly, or to take strong action to try to make it happen:
Local residents are pushing for the road to be made safer.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making appeals & requests
- a cry for help idiom
- appellate
- application
- ask for sb
- beseech
- besought
- bum
- cri de coeur
- crowdsource
- freeloader
- gateway
- go over sb's head idiom
- hit
- hit sb up
- I'll thank you to do sth idiom
- implore
- pester
- petition
- request
- scrounge
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