0 If something will not budge or you cannot budge it, it will not move:
1 to change your opinion or to make someone change their opinion:
I've tried persuading her, but she won't budge.
The metabolic theory's authors are not budging.
The administration did not budge this time, though, on the grounds that improved rest house facilities made servants unnecessary.
Pushing a car but it does not budge: no energy is transferred, because your force does not move.
Neither the physicians nor hospital administrators would budge.
If actor-networks are tightly formed and impenetrable, and contexts and circumstances are not conducive to change, no amount of rational argument will budge a policy from its pedestal.
The officer had now added a series of conditions to the union's demand though management was still refusing to budge on the principle of their right to declare redundancies.
Compared to the total stasis of the other big players, not one of whom budged an inch?
However, it should not budge one inch on the conditions put forward regarding emissions.
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