push definition

push

Internet: (1) Broadcasting information (via emails or automatic uploading) at predetermined intervals without every time seeking recipient's prior permission. (2) Computer program that automatically retrieves updated information from specified websites and presents it to the user at predetermined times.

Manufacturing: Buying inventory of materials, parts, subassemblies, etc., based on the firm's production plan, and distributing it to the production center(s) at a predetermined rate. See also push system.

Marketing: Creation of demand through filling the retailers' shelves by giving them incentives (called push money) to stock large volumes. See also push promotional strategy.

push is in the Advertising, Marketing, & Sales, Industries, Manufacturing, & Technology and Internet & World Wide Web subjects.

push appears in the definitions of the following terms: short squeeze, continuous flow distribution (CFD), spiff, short interest, pull, fractional reserve system (FRS), dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF), inflationary spiral, incomes policy and channel distribution format (CDF)

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