Synonym: jab, poke, prod, prompt, push, shove. Similar words: fudge, budget, trudge, drudgery, denude, pudgy, grudgingly, edge. Meaning: [nʌdʒ] 
n. a slight push or shake. v. 1. to push against gently 2. push into action by pestering or annoying gently.
n. a slight push or shake. v. 1. to push against gently 2. push into action by pestering or annoying gently. 
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61. He gave his friend who had fallen asleep a nudge.
62. The thinkers in the nudge unit are wandering around in a trance of long-term blue-sky thinking but no one is managing the hard issues that will surface next week and next month.
63. Sadly they are likely to flounder unless the Americans do more than just nudge them along.
64. They nudge the back of our necks with their trunks.
65. A vertical or horizontal bar containing a scroll thumb and nudge buttons.
66. An engine start-stop function and regenerative braking help nudge the fuel economy to a claimed 56 mpg city and 65 mpg on the highway.
67. Thaler and Sunstein have a wonderful account of many of these in their book on choice architecture called Nudge.
68. I gave him a nudge and he understood at once.
69. As we float gently through the streets of London, a construction worker does a double take; an entire column of schoolboys, coming out of Regent's Park, nudge each other and point.
70. When I'm in a full-blown, dead-to-the-world snore, my husband has to give me a gentle nudge, wake me up and tell me to turn the other way.
71. An approval from Interior Secretary Ken Salazarmight well nudge the project to completion as the nation's firstoffshore wind farm.
72. These wing vortices are very unstable, meaning they should vanish at the teensiest nudge,[www.Sentencedict.com] Balakumar said.
73. An extra nudge from China to encourage attendance probably helped, too.
74. Sheila Bair , the FDIC's chairman, indicated this week that banks would be given a nudge.
75. Conscientious lenders could also nudge people to get off the refinancing merry-go-round, by suggesting that the term of the loan be shortened when a loan is refinanced.
76. The scientists have analysed the comets in the Oort cloud and deduced that 25 per-cent of them would need a nudge by a body of at least Jupiter size before they changed orbit.
77. But which features of a situation nudge our feelings and behaviour in one or other direction, one time towards depressive introspection, say, and another time towards joyous extraversion?
78. This paper makes an analysis in theory on language learning surroundings required by self-educated language learners with a bit nudge from teachers.