Definition of "chivvying" []

• Present participle of chivvy. (verb)

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• "He would never admit it, but he will surely be privately pleased that the government is chivvying along the process of finally taking the FA's governance arrangements into the 21st century."
• "I had a major insight about the challenge of keeping our school-day mornings moving along: I was focused on chivvying my children along."
• "But this is also a documentary about Pathé's tone, about its part, for example, in chivvying along the population during 1940s make-do-and-mend years when the government information film reigned supreme."