squeeze out

verb

squeezed out; squeezing out; squeezes out

transitive verb

: to force out of a position, place, etc.

a small local restaurant squeezed out by a fast-food chain

Examples of squeeze out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There’s so much hope for what could come next in pancreatic cancer, that every bit of information should be squeezed out of this trial and made available to oncologists as quickly as possible. —Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026

There’s so much hope for what could come next in pancreatic cancer, that every bit of information should be squeezed out of this trial and made available to oncologists as quickly as possible. —Lisa Jarvis, Mercury News, 4 June 2026

Frozen bananas left in the peel should be thawed before using and the banana will squeeze out in mashed form. —Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 4 June 2026

And there’s still a chance both could come from behind to squeeze out Hilton. —Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026

Rhymes for squeeze out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout

Legal Definition

squeezeout

noun

squeeze·​out

ˈskwēz-ˌau̇t

: a corporate action or series of actions (as a refusal to declare dividends or the restricting of decision-making power in corporate governance) through which majority shareholders deprive minority shareholders of the benefit of stock ownership usually as part of an attempt to force sale of minority shares compare freezeout

Note: Freezeout and squeezeout are sometimes used as synonyms.