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

If things get really bad (in an economic sense), however, Mann pointed out airlines will have plenty of levers available to tweak the value proposition of their premium cabins and still squeeze out a healthy profit margin from the people who are willing to pay. —Zach Wichter, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025

Dip a clean wet cloth or sponge into the solution and squeeze out any excess water. —Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2025

So there's savings that are getting squeezed out there. —Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025

Instead of being part of a healthy, long-term system, the company becomes a tool for squeezing out quick profits. —Jim Vinoski, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

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.