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Plural of pushback

regular plural

The plural of pushback is pushbacks.

Forms of pushback

Singularpushback
Pluralpushbacks
Countablecountable and uncountable

Pushbacks in a sentence

  • Sweden, as well as the UK, recently announced pushbacks on green targets and budgets, while there are negative noises from Germany on building insulation costs.2023 October 10, Senay Boztas, “Frans Timmermans urges European left to unite against right’s climate backlash”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  • Jasmin Redjepi, president of Legis, said the “disturbing and degrading” pushbacks came shortly after an EU-Serbian border cooperation summit, aimed at strengthening the Serbian border against people-smuggling operations.2024 February 22, Katy Fallon, Lorenzo Tondo, “Videos show migrants stripped of clothing in freezing temperatures at Serbian border”, in...

Meaning of pushback

  1. noun The act of repelling an enemy, etc.
  2. noun A procedure in which an aircraft is pushed backwards away from the gate by some external force, usually a special tractor.
  3. noun A reversal or reduction.

Full definition of pushback

Questions about the plural of pushback

What is the plural of pushback?
The plural of pushback is pushbacks.
Is pushback countable?
Pushback is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pushback (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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