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Meaning of "make ends meet" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MAKE ENDS MEET

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MAKE ENDS MEET

make an honest woman of
make away
make away with
make believe
make capital of
make certain of
make common cause with
make conversation
make do
make ducks and drakes of
make eyes
make eyes at
make fish of one and flesh of another
make for
make free with
make friends
make fun of
make game of
make good
make haste

WORDS THAT END LIKE MAKE ENDS MEET

feet
fleet
greet
helpmeet
Main Street
man in the street
meet
premeet
remeet
retweet
sheet
street
swap meet
sweet
the High Street
track meet
tweet
unmeet
Wall Street
watersmeet

Synonyms and antonyms of make ends meet in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MAKE ENDS MEET»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «make ends meet» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of make ends meet

Translation of «make ends meet» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MAKE ENDS MEET

Find out the translation of make ends meet to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of make ends meet from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «make ends meet» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

入不敷出
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

a fin de mes
570 millions of speakers

English

make ends meet
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मिलना समाप्त होता है
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تغطية نفقاتهم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

свести концы с концами
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fazer face às despesas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শেষ হয়ে যাবে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

joindre les deux bouts
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

memenuhi keperluan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

die Runden zu kommen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

やりくり
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

끝 을 맞추기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nggawe ends ketemu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kiếm sống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செய்யுங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भागवणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bitmek üzere buluş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

far quadrare il bilancio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

koniec z końcem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

звести кінці з кінцями
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

face capete întâlni
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

να τα βγάλουν πέρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

maak eindig ontmoet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gå ihop
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

få endene til å møtes
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of make ends meet

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MAKE ENDS MEET»

The term «make ends meet» is quite widely used and occupies the 49.829 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MAKE ENDS MEET» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «make ends meet» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «make ends meet» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about make ends meet

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10 QUOTES WITH «MAKE ENDS MEET»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word make ends meet.
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Ronnie Barker
In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.
2
Evan Bayh
Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.
3
Jo Beverley
When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family.
4
Sherrod Brown
Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.
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Phil Collins
I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.
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Jerry Costello
While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.
7
Martin L. Gross
The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.
8
Tom Guiry
I work in a hospital as a patient transporter to make ends meet for my three kids.
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Valerie Jarrett
People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.
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Tom Jones
I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAKE ENDS MEET»

Discover the use of make ends meet in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to make ends meet and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and ...
Examines the realities of welfare dependency and the true cost of subsistence living
Kathryn Edin, Laura Lein, 1997
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
1940 "a man doesn't know which way to make ends meet." (p. 92) Sayers, Dorothy L. In the Teeth of the Evidence. 1940. New York: Avon Books, 1952. 1949 It was all that I could do to make ends meet. (p. 133) Stuart, Jesse. The Thread That ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
3
How Does Elderly Family Care Evolve Over Time ?: An Analysis ...
GRAPH Vll-36: Ability to make ends meet distribution by education 100 % 90 80 70 60 5O 4O 3O ZO 1O O Easily Fairly level at wave 3 (PSBH 1994) U Primaryorless(n:5Z1) U Lower secondary (n:243) El Uppersecondan/(n:215) U ...
Amandine Jasmine Masuy, 2011
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Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and ...
Then they cut me off. And I just couldn't make ends meet with $4.50 an hour, because I was paying for day care too. So I [had] to quit my job to get back on it. It took me forever to get back on, and meanwhile I had to starve and beg from friends.
Kathryn Edin, Laura Lein, 1997
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Making Ends Meet: Essays and Talks, 1992-2004
My mother never forgave the fate that had made it necessary for her to leave school and work to contribute to the household, to 'make ends meet' — although her and my father's lives were to move far beyond the borders of small-town New  ...
Ian Wedde, 2005
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"Yes We Can": Barack Obama's Proverbial Rhetoric
So did the young man who lived in the crumbling apartment a few blocks away and was trying to make ends meet by mixing records at dance parties. As it had for the men in Smitty's barbershop, the election had given both these people a new ...
Wolfgang Mieder, 2009
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How's Life? Measuring Well-being: Measuring Well-being
In European countries many households find it difficult to make ends meet The share of households in European countries who declare that they are having difficulty making ends meet is around 15% on average, with 10% reporting that they ...
OECD, 2011
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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
make ends meet To earn enough income to provide for basic needs: "The workers complained that on their present wages they could hardly make ends meet, let alone enjoy any luxuries." make my day To make someone very happy: "You ...
Eric Donald Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James S. Trefil, 2002
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Usury Laws: A Legal and Economic Evaluation of Interest Rate ...
Figure 104 and Figure 105 present a subjective measure of over-indebtedness ( the “ability to make ends meet”.246 They, again, group countries according to the prevailing degree of interest rate regulation. As Figure 104 indicates, the highest  ...
Udo Reifner, Michael Schröder, 2012
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Introduction to the Grammar of English
... [so she wasn V unduly worried] R (39) i [Members of Parliament] who have no private income [f1nd it hard to make ends meet] R ii [Members of Parliament,] who are already grossly overpaid, ( should not vote themselves any further pay rise ...
Rodney Huddleston, 1984

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAKE ENDS MEET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term make ends meet is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rachel Dolezal is styling black hair to make ends meet | New York …
The disgraced NAACP leader who sparked a national uproar amid accusations she was masquerading as a black woman is using the skills ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
2
United Way report finds many struggle to make ends meet
Almost 1 in 3 California households struggle each month to meet their basic needs, according to a report released this week by United Ways of ... «Porterville Recorder, Jul 15»
3
Students Scrape the Barrel to Make Ends Meet - The Chosun Ilbo
Students Scrape the Barrel to Make Ends Meet. About a dozen messages are posted on the online flea markets of colleges in Seoul every day ... «The Chosun Ilbo, Jul 15»
4
Making Ends Meet: How One Vermont Family Survived Lean …
Sons Ben and Noah work for their parents at Burlington's Farmers Market to help make ends meet. Despite Pat Keogh and Cathleen ... «Vermont Public Radio, Jul 15»
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Women's advocates say SouthCoast has work to do on pay equity
Women are working hard to make ends meet, take care of their children — and they are working with one hand tied behind their back because ... «Taunton Daily Gazette, Jul 15»
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HISD trying to fill vacant teacher positions - Itemonline.com: News
... that “41 percent of Texas teachers moonlight during the school year, and 61 percent take extra jobs during the summer to make ends meet.”. «Huntsville Item, Jul 15»
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Parents shell out for big increases on college tuition | WTVR.com
And she worked as school janitor between her studies to make ends meet. She wanted to go to college. So Ashley Dawn applied to 5 colleges ... «wtvr.com, Jul 15»
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UNHCR - Syrian refugee in Lebanon decides to head to Turkey to …
... gave cooking classes, did secretarial work, and volunteered to help other refugees, but still struggled each month to make ends meet. «UNHCR, Jul 15»
9
De Blasio Turns Down Uber's Request to Debate Legislation …
Not only is this totally false, but insults the daily struggle the small businesses of our city, struggling to make ends meet and shows just how ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»
10
Need for food assistance rises as Alaskans struggle to make ends
Need for food assistance rises as Alaskans struggle to make ends meet. By Anne Hillman, KSKA July 18, 2015 Economy, Featured News, Health No Comments. «Ktoo, Jul 15»

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