chivvy Definition på svenska

  • 0 to encourage someone to do something they do not want to do: --

    • I had to chivvy him into writing the report.

    • He kept putting off writing the report so I had to chivvy him along.

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Examples of chivvy

  • I hope that it will be somebody who is very vigorous and goes bustling around the countryside and is able to visit these wonderful places and chivvy the civil servants.

  • Let us not chivvy, hurry or harangue them.

  • But it would be unreasonable of us to chivvy them at this stage.

  • The only thing to do was to move in and to chivvy them until they finished and went.

  • We may not direct them but from time to time there is certainly cause to chivvy them to ensure that they match the world's best.

  • He has tried to chivvy up the district health authority.

  • The idea was that the local authority should "chivvy up" the owners or the agents into putting their properties back on to the market.

  • He is trying to chivvy on this policy.

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