squeeze

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Had they not squeezed me out, no doubt I'd still be hanging on trying to turn things around.

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Quick take

the act of gripping and pressing firmly; "he gave her cheek a playful squeeze"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of squeeze gathered in one view.

noun

the act of gripping and pressing firmly; "he gave her cheek a playful squeeze"

noun

a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high

noun

a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer; "increased expenses put a squeeze on profits"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for squeeze.

noun

the act of gripping and pressing firmly; "he gave her cheek a playful squeeze"

noun

a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high

noun

a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer; "increased expenses put a squeeze on profits"

noun

(slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend; "she was his main squeeze"

noun

a twisting squeeze; "gave the wet cloth a wring"

noun

an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the concentration or manipulation of power; "she laughed at this sexual power play and walked away"

noun

a tight or amorous embrace; "come here and give me a big hug"

noun

the act of forcing yourself (or being forced) into or through a restricted space; "getting through that small opening was a tight squeeze"

verb

to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"

verb

press firmly; "He squeezed my hand"

verb

squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner"

verb

to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"

verb

obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"

verb

press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"

verb

squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle"

See also: pinch, twinge, tweet, nip, twitch

verb

squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness; "Hug me, please"; "They embraced"; "He hugged her close to him"

verb

squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"

See also: compress, constrict, compact, contract, press

Example sentences

Had they not squeezed me out, no doubt I'd still be hanging on trying to turn things around.

Ideally, they force the person being squeezed out to choose to quit rather than actually be fired.

So we must squeeze point estimates out of the true distribution.

And as Facebook starts to die, you will feel the pain it inflicts on its closest "partners" as it scrambles to squeeze blood from turnips.

If you don't squeeze it perfectly symmetrically, it will squirt through your fingers and pop rather than getting compressed by a factor of 20.

You mean "made of wood," but that's the most you can squeeze out. Please don't try to steal the thunder of actual artisans.> "unique built-in eraser"\n> "unique sensor lets you flip Pencil to erase"Yeah, the crappy Wacom knockoff I bought in 1998 had the same thing.

Eventually the alley narrowed to where we had to turn sideways to squeeze past people coming in the opposite direction, and there were shop counters on either side.

The problem is that it's not actually more expensive and Comcast knows their customers can't choose someone else so it's a much better strategy to squeeze the content providers.

" Although I am highly impressed by Google's self-driving cars, I can't help but feel a little bit let down that the car did not navigate around tables, make way for waiters, or squeeze through tight spaces.

All of these solutions suffer from the same basic problem namely they are trying to squeeze a dynamic, multidimensional viewport into a linear text string for rapid communication.

I really liked this quote - "Programmers just starting out today never had to squeeze, so it’s a little harder for them to get the right religion because they always think of resources as being immediately available.

You've already made a significant investment into the company, and from their perspective, an ideal/successful squeeze-out is one that deprives you of that ownership interest entirely.

Because you can squeeze most of Calculus so that it depends only upon this "abstract interface" and then apply things you learned from calculus all over the place.---Finally, note that this is more like a "proposed" derivative than "the" derivative on natural numbers.