1. To press or force out
   "Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts"
    
2. Extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing
   "squeeze out the face cloth";
   - wring out
    
3. Form or shape by forcing through an opening
   "The baker squeezed out perfect rosettes of frosting";
   - extrude
    
4. Obtain with difficulty
   "He squeezed out some information from the archives";
   - eke out
    
5. Make by laborious and precarious means
   "He squeezed out a living as a painter";
   - eke out

Derived forms: squeezes out, squeezing out, squeezed out

See also: squeeze, wrench

Type of: bring in, can [N. Amer, informal], clear, create, dismiss, displace, draw out, earn, extract, fire, force out, gain, give notice, give the axe [informal], give the sack [informal], make, obtain, produce, pull, pull in [informal], pull out, pull up, realise [Brit], realize, rip out, sack, send away, take in, take out, tear out, terminate

Encyclopedia: Squeeze out