1. Resistance or opposition to a proposal, policy, or action
   "The new policy received significant pushback from employees"
    
2. (aviation) the process of moving an aircraft backward from a gate or parking position
   "Ground crew initiated pushback procedures for flight 203"

1. Cause to move back by force or influence
   "push back the urge to smoke";
   - repel, drive, repulse, force back, beat back

1. The act of forcing the enemy to withdraw
   "The counteroffensive resulted in a significant push back of enemy forces";
   - rollback

Derived forms: pushed back, pushing back, pushes back, push backs, pushbacks

Type of: force, offence [Brit, Cdn], offense [US], offensive, push

Antonym: attract

Encyclopedia: Pushback