What does squeeze by mean?

squeeze by means "manage one's existence barely".

What is another word for squeeze by?

Close synonyms include scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, rub along. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is squeeze by a common word?

squeeze by is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

squeeze by — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
manage one's existence barely
“I guess I can squeeze by on this lousy salary”
Synonymsscrape along scrape by scratch along squeak by rub along
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