Eke Out

Definition: Eke Out

Eke Out

Verb

1. Supplement what is thought to be deficient; "He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons"; "Braque eked out his collages with charcoal".

2. Live from day to day, as with some hardship: "He eked out his years in great poverty".

3. Make by laborious and precarious means; "He eked out a living as a painter".

4. Obtain with difficulty: "He eked out some information from the archives".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Eke Out

Completeness

Render complete; Adjective: complete; (accomplish); fill, charge, load, replenish; make up, make good; piece out, eke out; supply deficiencies; fill up, fill in, fill to the brim, fill the measure of; saturate.

Diuturnity

Tarry; (be late); drag on, drag its slow length along, drag a lengthening chain; protract, prolong; spin out, eke out, draw out, lengthen out; temporize; gain time, make time, talk against time.

Crosswords: Eke Out

Douglas, Georgia. South Georgia tobacco sharecropper during the tobacco auction. In order to eke out a living members of the sharecropper families in recent years have begun to migrate to Florida after cotton or tobacco harvest to work in fruits or vegeta. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Uzbekistan

Import levels have dropped from a high of 4.2 billion in 1996 to 2.6 billion in 1999. Exports have also dropped, from a high of 3.7 billion in 1997 to under $3 billion in 1999, of which raw cotton exports account for about 35%. By this drastic reduction in trade, Uzbekistan has managed to eke out a modest balance of payments surplus of $359 million in 1999. Cotton export revenues are very vulnerable to low harvests and to low cotton prices; low harvests in 1998 and 2000 were offset by higher prices, but the higher 1999 harvest was offset by lower prices, leaving overall cotton export income fairly steady at about $1.1 billion. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "eke out": eke out a bare existence ♦ eke out a livelihood ♦ eke out a living ♦ eke out one's living. Additional references.

Albanian

shtoj (add, add to, add up, advance, append, attach, augment, compound, count in, enclose, enhance, heighten, inclose, increase, intensify, intercalate, lend, multiply, propagate, put on, pyramid, raise, redouble, refill, subjoin, superinduce, supplement). (various references)

Arabic 

‏زود (accommodate, assort, button, cap, chock, cover, equip, fit, fit out, furnish, gloss, irrigate, lend, outfit, provide, purvey, rig out, serve, set up, store, supply, tool up), ‏إقتصد (economize, manage, retrench, save, scrimp, sock away, spare). (various references)

Bulgarian 

прибавям (add, add in, add on, admix, affix, append, interpolate, join, put in, stick in, superadd, supplement, tack, tag, tail, tail on, take on, throw in). (various references)

Czech

zacházet s èím hospodárnì, vyrovnat (balance, clear off, compound, eke, equalize, even, even out, even up, flatten, justify, level up, meet, quit, settle, settle up, smooth out, stack up, steady), nastavit (angle, eke, lengthen, stretch, tune), doplnit èím, šetřit s èím. (various references)

French

gagner. (various references)

German

verlängern (elongate, extend, lengthen, make longer, produce, project, prolong, protract, renew, to elongate, to extend, to lengthen), strecken (crane, dilute, drag out, elongate, extend, hammer out, make go further, pad out, put back, raise, routes, spin out, straighten, strech out, stretch, thin down, to stretch, unbend), fristen (adjourn, delay, hold in abeyance, postpone, respites). (various references)

Greek 

συμπληρώνω (complement, complete, fill in, fill out, supplement, top off). (various references)

Hungarian

kiegészít (amend, complement, complete, fill out, implement, integrate, make up, piece out, supplement, to amend, to augment, to complement, to eke out, to expand, to integrate, to make up, to piece out, to piece together, to refill, to replenish, to supplement), jövedelmet összekapar. (various references)

Manx

dy heeyney magh. (various references)

Pig Latin

ekeay outay

Portuguese

suprir (feed, furnish, make up, provide, provision, supplement, supply), prolongar (continue, elongate, extend, lengthen, piece, prolong, protract, spin). (various references)

Romanian

prelungi (drive, extend, last, lengthen, pause on, prolong, protract, spread), lungi (dilate, dilute, draw out, extend, lengthen, let down, protract, spin out, stretch), adãuga la (add to). (various references)

Russian 

восполнять. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dopuniti (complement, fill, supplement). (various references)

Spanish

tener dinero grave, suplir las deficiencias (eke), hacer que llegue, ganar a duras penas. (various references)

Swedish

få att räcka till, dryga ut (spin out, stretch). (various references)

Thai

ช�"เชยให้. (various references)

Turkish

uzatmak (augment, belabor, belabour, continue, drag out, draw out, elongate, enlarge, extend, grow, hand, hold out, hold over, lengthen, outstretch, pad out, pass, prolong, protract, pull out, rack, reach, renew, repose on, sidestep, span, spin out, sprawl out, spread, stand over, stick, stick out, stretch, stretch out, turn to, wiredraw), tamamlamak (bring to completion, button up, catch up on, clear up, complement, complete, consummate, do, finalize, finish, fulfil, fulfill, go through with, implement, integrate, perfect, round off, round out, serve out, supplement, take up, work off, work up), ilave etmek (add, annex, inset, integrate, put in, schedule, slap on, subjoin, supplement), idareli kullanmak (be sparing of, economize, go slow, harvest, husband, spare), artırmak (add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bid up, boom, boost, build up, bump up, compound, deepen, economize, enhance, escalate, exalt, fade up, gain, heighten, improve, increase, outbid, overbid, put on, put up, raise, run up, save, scale up, screw up, send up, step up, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, whip up, work up). (various references)

Ukrainian

поповнювати (recruit, renew, replace). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: keet, keto, toke.

-3 letters: eke, kue, oke, out, tee, toe, uke.

-4 letters: et, oe, to, ut.

+1 letter: outkeep.

+2 letters: outkeeps.

+3 letters: eukaryote, housekept, leukocyte.

+4 letters: eukaryotes, leukocytes, outkeeping, steakhouse, tonguelike.

+5 letters: leukotomies, leukotriene, steakhouses.