Definition of "pushback" [pushback]

• A device or mechanism that affords movement of another object backwards: the pushback on a subway door. (noun)
• Forced movement of troops back from the line. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "He knows whatever he decides, he will receive massive pushback from the other side."
• "His willingness to provide that sort of pushback is part of why the COIN set likes him."
• "But as so many of the attacks then started being directed enemies of the Pakistani state, the pushback from the Pakistani side has been much, much, much lower."