put forward
English
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Verb
[edit]put forward (third-person singular simple present puts forward, present participle putting forward, simple past and past participle put forward)
- (idiomatic, transitive) To propose for consideration.
- The Prime Minister put forward new plans to tackle corruption.
- 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times[1]:
- Democrats, meanwhile, point out that Republicans seem to have made a conscious decision, beginning with the stimulus, to oppose anything the president put forward, dooming any chance of renewed cooperation between the parties.
- 2021 July 14, Pip Dunn, “Woodhead 40 years on: time to let go”, in RAIL, number 935, page 39:
- Another argument for closing Woodhead was simply one of route duplication, and this was the main reason put forward by BR at the time.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To change the time in a time zone to a later time.
- Don't forget that this Sunday we put the clocks forward an hour.
- 1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Railways and Summer Time”, in Railway Magazine, page 429:
- When the clocks are put forward at the introduction of summer time, the long-distance night trains automatically become one hour late, and continue to run late for the remainder of their journeys. […] Similarly, when the clocks are put back in the autumn, the night trains become one hour early.
Translations
[edit]to propose for consideration
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to set a clock to a later time