jostle

/ˈdʒɒsl/ verb [I, T]

Translation

› to push other people in order to get somewhere in a crowd

kalabalık içinde insanları iterek gidilecek yere ulaşmak

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jostle for sth phrasal verb

› to try hard to get something

kıyasıya mücadele etmek

Thousands of companies are jostling for business on the Internet.1842

(Definition of jostle verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

to not be trusted or popular because people think you have done something bad

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