adjective [notbeforenoun] (informal)
1 ~ (to do sth) having difficulty doing sth:
You'll be hard pushed to finish this today.
2 ~ for sth not having enough of sth:
to be pushed for money / time
3 busy:
I know you're pushed; but can you make tomorrow's meeting?
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This entry for pushed is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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