Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - pushed

1. If you are pushed for something such as time or money, you do not have enough of it. (BRIT INFORMAL; in AM, use pressed for) He’s going to be a bit pushed for money. ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ for n 2. If you are hard pushed to do something, you find it very difficult to do it. (BRIT) I’d be hard pushed to teach him anything. = hard-pressed PHRASE: V inflects