Synonyms of making ends meet

making ends meet

phrase

present participle of make ends meet

as in coping

to meet one's day-to-day needs

The couple's income was just enough to make ends meet each month.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• coping
• doing
• making do
• getting along
• getting on
• getting by
• making out
• managing
• surviving
• making shift
• shifting
• fending for oneself
• carrying on
• scraping (by or through)
• faring
• affording
• scraping (out)
• eking out
• lasting
• scrounging
• contriving
• squeezing
• wringing
• swinging
• wresting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• falling short
• failing
• collapsing
• floundering
• declining
• waning
• giving up
• slumping
• petering (out)
• fizzling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of making ends meet

It was inspired by my partner’s plight in academia, one that mirrored my own plight as a former freelancer barely making ends meet. — Literary Hub, 27 July 2026

Fewer Miami-Dade households can make ends meet During the same year, thousands of Miami-Dade households were incapable of making ends meet, according to data provided by United Way. — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 22 July 2026

His true seasonal arc begins not with Bruce’s (Damon Daunno) death but rather in the Brick & Bacon, a New York City diner where a 20something waitress named Regina (Delainey Hayles) works shifts that don’t get her any closer to making ends meet. — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026