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

This squeezed out spending until that caused debt service problems and spending constraints. —Ray Dalio, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026

It’s been months since contract negotiations broke down, leaving thousands of Florida Blue policyholders squeezed out of medical care provided by the two sprawling Broward hospital districts’ 11 hospitals and caregiver networks. —Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2026

With the Nets at 17-47, riding a two-game winning streak entering their fourth and final meeting with the Detroit Pistons at Barclays Center, the best use of Dëmin now isn’t squeezing out the last chunk of this schedule. —C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2026

Brink was also getting squeezed out in a deep Flyers wing group that will soon add Porter Martone. —Corey Pronman, New York Times, 6 Mar. 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.