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

Orchid, 43, said the point of starting the landfill litigation was to shutter the dump and squeeze out enough money from the owners for her sick neighbors to move out of town. — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026

That same leverage also helps EMO squeeze out a percentage point or two more in yield out of its monthly distribution than energy infrastructure ETFs. — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026

Jake Johnson stars as Dusty Boyd, an over-the-hill tennis pro slumming it as a children’s tennis teacher at his father Chuck’s (Ed Harris) country club, where pickleball is squeezing out tennis. — David Faris, TheWeek, 6 July 2026

To prep the tofu, squeeze out excess water then cube or crumble it. — Malaka Gharib, NPR, 6 July 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.