pushfulness

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push·ful

(po͝osh′fo͝ol′)

adj.

Pushing.

push′ful·ness n.

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pushfulness

(ˈpʊʃfʊlnɪs)

informal US the quality of being offensively assertive or forceful

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Translations

pushfulness

[ˈpʊʃfʊlnɪs] N (= dynamism) → empuje m, dinamismo m, espíritu m emprendedor; (= ambition) → ambición f (pej) → agresividad f

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References in periodicals archive ?

But one danger that we highlight is that a European central bank could be tempted to adopt the strategic role of developing threat strategies against, for example, certain types of wage pushfulness across the EMU area, or of seeing a role for itself in `punishing' deviations from the Stability Pact.

THE ASSESSMENT: MACROECONOMIC POLICY AFTER EMU

Yet Pound was innately attracted to ideals of timeless order as well, and there was a sense in which for him Fascism, with its cult of youth and dynamic pushfulness, was insufficiently hieratic to fulfil the needs of his nature, which was fundamentally religious.

The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot and Pound

He then seeks to account for the alternative measure of economic performance used earlier (the unemployment rate plus the current account deficit as percentage of gross domestic product) for the period 1985-89 using EWC in conjunction with a measure of local wage "pushfulness." The latter refers to the degree to which workplaces enjoy the capacity to undertake autonomous collective action in the wage-setting process in conjunction with whether the incentive structure facing workers is likely to lead them to do so.