squeeze out

phrasal verb

squeezed out; squeezing out; squeezes out

: to force (someone or something) out of a position, place, etc.

Big stores have squeezed out a lot of the smaller locally owned shops.

Examples of squeeze out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The third step is to establish if any particular background training provides skills that further enhance performance, similar to coders in our experiment having a background skillset to squeeze out additional performance on data science tasks. —Riccarda Joas, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024

Mountains tend to block weather systems and squeeze out more rain, while steep slopes raise flood risk. —Denise Chow, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024

Larger corporate growers have entered the market with more resources to lower costs and expand operations, squeezing out small farmers. —Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2024

The drivers who squeezed out the final spots were Pietro Fittipaldi for Rahal Letterman Lanigan and Christian Rasmussen, who at the last minute was given the final three races of the season at Ed Carpenter Racing in an effort to keep the car inside the money. —Jenna Fryer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024

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.