Synonyms for budge
bʌdʒbudge

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1. budgeverb

   Synonyms:
   shift

2. budgeverb

   To move.

   I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.

   Synonyms:
   shift

3. budgeverb

   To move.

   I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it.

   Synonyms:
   shift

4. budgeverb

   To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.

   Synonyms:
   shift

5. budgeverb

   To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.

   Synonyms:
   shift

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1. Budge, Don Budge, John Donald Budgeverb

   United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000)

2. stir, shift, budge, agitateverb

   move very slightly

   "He shifted in his seat"

   Synonyms:
   fight, touch, shake up, charge, excite, arouse, put forward, raise up, shake, transfer, commove, tilt, vex, agitate, stir, call down, conjure, stimulate, switch, rouse, bring up, campaign, conjure up, reposition, invoke, raise, turn on, pitch, lurch, call forth, change over, careen, shift, wobble, dislodge, evoke, charge up, push, foment, crusade, change, press, stir up, disturb

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1. budgeverb

   Synonyms:
   stir, move, go

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1. List of paraphrases for "budge":

   move

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How to use budge in a sentence?

1. Xavier Bertrand:

   The migrants, they want to travel to England, they know that you can work without papers in England. They are underpaid. As long as the English don't change the rules, we going to have problems, either the English budge, genuinely and seriously, or we give them back their border.

2. Il Messaggero:

   We would never have voted for the (civil unions) if we had been told stripping out the 'stepchild' was temporary, pending a new law. We will absolutely not budge on this.

3. John Catanzara:

   If we suspect the numbers are true and we get a large number of our members who stand firm on their beliefs that this is an overreach, and they're not going to supply the information in the portal or submit to testing, then it's safe to say the city of Chicago will have a police force at 50 % or less for this weekend coming up, that is not because of the FOP, that is 100 % because of the mayor's unwillingness to budge from her hard line so whatever happens because of the manpower issue, that falls at the mayor's doorstep.

4. Jomana Qaddour:

   The international community should treat this as a non-event. It's absolutely not changing the economic conditions on the ground. It's not changing the political conditions on the ground. Syrians are just as oppressed. They will be just as oppressed on Thursday as they are today. There's absolutely nothing that's changed or will change in their lives, the Assad regime and The Assad regime allies want to continue to affirm that they will not budge an inch despite everything the country has been through in the last ten years, despite the fact that they're trying to keep the country alive economically.

5. Zhang Baohui:

   We're in for a difficult time...when it comes to the Paracels, China is not going to budge on what it sees as its absolute sovereign rights, we could see China acting more swiftly and decisively to anything it sees as a so-called provocation in the Paracels.