0 to push something or someone gently, especially to push someone with your elbow (= the middle part of your arm where it bends) to attract the person's attention: --
1 to encourage or persuade someone to do something in a way that is gentle rather than forceful or direct: --
2 the act of pushing someone or something gently: --
I gave him a nudge to wake him up.
3 something that encourages or persuades someone to do something in a gentle way, or the act of doing this: --
4 to push someone or something gently, sometimes to get someone’s attention: --
5 to move by a small amount in a particular direction, especially up, or make something do this: --
Now oil is nudging $27 a barrel, and the increases cannot be hidden.
Without having that apparatus, my judgment of the direction our policy should take is that it should be nudged towards reflation.
For years now every government have been nudging and hinting at the universities to cut expenditure.
Now the clock is in part to be nudged back: compulsory recognition of trade unions is to be reintroduced.
How might we wisely nudge this future?
The attack on the private sector, moreover, nudged the state in the direction of politically motivated public-policy projects, which compelled it to look for increased sources of revenue.
Plausibility is maximized when we identify not just structural ambiguities that allow for reanalysis, but also extra-structural factors that nudge the interpretation in the direction of a particular analysis.
Protestants contribute to the deliberation about access when they nudge the analysis of moral notions in the direction of the story they love to tell and struggle to live.
