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Antonyms for make ends meet
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : end |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɛnd |
Definition of make ends meet
Origin :- Old English endian, from the source of end (n.). Related: Ended; ending.
- As in live : verb make money to support living
- As in save : verb economize; set money aside for later use
- As in scrimp : verb economize
- As in skimp : verb be cheap or frugal about
- As in stint : verb economize; hold back
- As in subsist : verb keep going, living
- As in economize : verb save money
- As in get by : verb manage, survive
- They pay me when they can and, so that I can make ends meet, I am well content.'
- Extract from : « No Surrender! » by G. A. Henty
- You know how—sometimes even to make ends meet, it is a pinch.
- Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1917 » by Various
- With the best will in the world it would be impossible to make ends meet.
- Extract from : « A Chambermaid's Diary » by Octave Mirbeau
- After all, something must bend if you are going to make ends meet.
- Extract from : « Aliens » by William McFee
- The close of his life was a horrible struggle to make ends meet.
- Extract from : « Dumas' Paris » by Francis Miltoun
- And—and—well, it's hard to make ends meet anyhow these times.
- Extract from : « Dry Fish and Wet » by Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen
- He could sympathize with those who knew not how to make ends meet.
- Extract from : « Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous » by Sarah K. Bolton
- Though an exemplary man he could not make ends meet in a business out of which his father had made a fortune.
- Extract from : « Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures » by George W. Bain
- The women here have a rough time; what with no servants, no kitchen, scanty wood, and poor rations; it is hard to make ends meet.
- Extract from : « Woman's Endurance » by A.D.L.
- I am sure when you are so near I shall find some literary labor for you that will make ends meet.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) » by John Gibson Lockhart
Synonyms for make ends meet
- acquire a livelihood
- amass
- barely exist
- be
- be cheap
- be economical
- be frugal
- be mean with
- be parsimonious
- be prudent
- be sparing
- be stingy
- be thrifty
- begrudge
- breathe
- cache
- collect
- confine
- conserve
- continue
- contrive
- cope
- curtail
- cut back
- cut corners
- cut down
- define
- deposit
- do
- do well enough
- earn a living
- earn money
- eke out a living
- eke out an existence
- endure
- exist
- fare
- feather nest
- feed
- flourish
- gather
- get along
- get by
- get on
- go easy on
- grudge
- hang in
- hang on
- hang tough
- hide away
- hoard
- hold
- just make it
- keep
- keep within means
- last
- lay aside
- lay away
- limit
- live
- maintain
- make ends meet
- make it
- make out
- manage
- meet a budget
- move
- muddle through
- pay one's way
- penny-pinch
- pile up
- pinch
- pinch pennies
- profit
- prosper
- put by
- remain
- remain alive
- reserve
- restrain
- retrench
- ride out
- roll back
- run a tight ship
- run tight ship
- salt away
- save
- save for rainy day
- scamp
- scant
- scrape
- scrape by
- screw
- scrimp
- shepherd
- shift
- skimp
- skimp on
- slight
- sock away
- spare
- squirrel
- stash
- stay alive
- stick it out
- stick with it
- stint
- stockpile
- store
- stow away
- stretch a dollar
- subsist
- succeed
- support
- survive
- sustain
- thrive
- tighten belt
- tighten one's belt
- treasure
- withhold
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