to eke out a living ou an existence
1eke out — Fowler (1926) wanted to limit the use of this phrasal verb to refer to things that can be made to last longer or go further, i.e. a supply: ‘you can eke out your income or a scanty subsistence with odd jobs or by fishing, but you cannot eke out a …
2eke out — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms eke out : present tense I/you/we/they eke out he/she/it ekes out present participle eking out past tense eked out past participle eked out a) to get just enough money or food to be able to continue to exist… …
3eke out — phr verb Eke out is used with these nouns as the object: ↑existence, ↑living, ↑victory …
4eke — [i:k] v eke out [eke sth<=>out] phr v [: Old English; Origin: iecan, ecan to increase ] 1.) eke out a living/existence to manage to live with very little money or food ▪ They eke out a miserable existence in cardboard shacks. 2.) to make a… …
5eke — [ ik ] verb ,eke out phrasal verb transitive to get just enough money or food to be able to continue to exist: eke out a living/an existence: The family barely manages to eke out a living from their small farm. a. to make something such as money… …
6living — n. livelihood 1) to earn, get (BE), make a living 2) to eke out a living (to eke out a precarious living) 3) a comfortable; honest living (to earn a comfortable living) manner of existence 4) communal; high; suburban living 5) a standard of… …
7eke — verb eke sth out phrasal verb (T) literary 1 to make a small supply of something such as food or money last longer by carefully only using small amounts of it: Today s retired home owner has to eke out his pension as best he can. 2 eke out a… …
8eke — eke1 /eek/, v.t., eked, eking. 1. to increase; enlarge; lengthen. 2. eke out, a. to make (a living) or support (existence) laboriously: They managed to eke out a living by farming a small piece of land. b. to supplement; add to; stretch: to eke… …
9existence — ex|ist|ence W2S3 [ıgˈzıstəns] n 1.) [U] the state of existing existence of ▪ It is impossible to prove the existence of God. in existence ▪ The organization has been in existence for 25 years. ▪ Scientists have many theories about how the… …
10eke — [[t]i͟ːk[/t]] ekes, eking, eked PHRASE: V inflects If you eke a living or eke out an existence, you manage to survive with very little money. That forced peasant farmers to try to eke a living off steep hillsides ... He ekes out a living with a… …
