(v. t.) To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other.
(adv.) In addition; also; likewise.
(n.) An addition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those who have escaped form a growing underclass of refugees on the Thai border, where they eke out a meagre living and face deportation at any time.
(2) Branko, a former television repairman who now ekes out a living by farming, leaves the house accompanied by two other men.
(3) As the silt cleared, we found ourselves on a flat plain of yellow-tinged mud, inscribed with pits, burrows and tracks by species that eke out their existence on the detritus that settles from above.
(4) While Klimt was creating modern art there, Hitler was going to the opera to hear Wagner (conducted by the modernist Gustav Mahler), and soon eking a living painting drab topographic scenes.
(5) The trade-off begins to look like a real pain in the ass if one has been here for years and years and is barely eking out a living.
(6) I like the challenges that come with those that thrive in such adverse conditions, and there are plenty: woodland species that make the most of what little sunlight hits the leaf litter; ferns that like dripping cave mouths and cliff faces cast in gloom; and small shrubs that eke out a living under bigger things, such as butcher’s broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) and fragrant sweet box ( sarcoccoca ).
(7) Even the stronger economies at the eurozone's core have seen growth hit hard by the crisis and the German government was forced to concede on Wednesday that it now expects to eke out GDP growth of only 1% in 2013, not the 1.6% it had forecast.
(8) Better news saw Spain eke out marginal growth of 0.1% while the Italian economy essentially stabilized following extended contraction, although concerns persist about the ability of both countries to develop and sustain genuine recove 10.35am GMT Greece's recession may be easing, but there's no end to its unemployment crisis.
(9) His inquisitors tried to eke out what Cain would have done had he been in the White House but to little avail.
(10) After Ramsey's fancy flick was diverted by Jose Fonte, Wilshere burst on to the ball and eked out a chip so delicate it sailed over Boruc as if in slow motion.
(11) Cech dealt with assurance with Newcastle’s best efforts, which gave Arsenal the platform to eke out a win.
(12) Johariah ekes out a living to support her family by selling salted fish.
(13) He left school at 13 and for the past five years has eked out a living selling pirated books, guides and out-of-date maps to the soldiers and civilians going in and out of Nato's headquarters there.
(14) Khirbet Susiya is home to between 250 and 350 villagers – depending on the season – who live in around 100 structures and eke out an existence largely from subsistence agriculture.
(15) The sight of Chelsea's crestfallen players proved as much, their inability to convert when chances had been eked out in the first period proved critical as the Peruvian Paolo Guerrero, once a Bayern Munich player, registered the only goal midway through the second period.
(16) The study, which covered 100 carers affected by the changes, found local authorities were drawing up tight rationing criteria to eke out local discretionary support funds.
(17) Without copra, outer islanders will be reduced to a subsistence survival, eked from the land, supplemented by fishing and likely made impossible by tidal inundations.
(18) The commission said, however, that it expected Germany, France, Italy and Spain to perform even less well than the UK next year, with the 17-nation eurozone eking out expansion of just 0.1% in 2013.
(19) In a dizzying finale before the recess, House Republicans eked out the votes to pass two bills – neither of which have a realistic chance of becoming law – that aim to address the crisis at the US’s southern border.
(20) Gurgaon could just as well have been called DLF , the name of the company that built the city on a site where 30 years ago peasants eked a living out of the rocky land.
Kee
Definition:
(n. pl.) See Kie, Ky, and Kine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lui Por, Cheung Chi-ping and Lam Wing-kee will be “released on bail pending investigation in the coming few days”, said Hong Kong police in a brief notice late on Wednesday, based on information from the public security department in neighbouring Guangdong province.
(2) Kee slaved away on features about the way Britain was shaping up for the future and trying to live down its colonial past.
(3) The hardline Dutch finance minister, Jan Kees De Jager, signalled that the eurozone would run that risk.
(4) Speaking to the media at the start of the two-day Eurogroup meeting in Nicosia, Dutch finance minister Jan Kees de Jager said that if Greece's recession is deeper than expected, perhaps it could be given more time to hit its targets.
(5) Sixteen consecutive patients were treated for septic arthritis of the kee with arthroscopic lavage and debridement.
(6) To test the feasibility of the system design a prototype has been built using Knowledge Engineering Environment (KEE) from Intellicorp on an Explorer workstation from Unisys.
(7) In his later years, Kee campaigned in a quiet way for his main thesis that justice must rest on truth – which was not an easy argument to put across in an age of spin doctors and other partisan manipulators.
(8) One interviewer asked Kee: "Had you been an Englishman in 1870, would you have supported Parnell?"
(9) Eurozone finance ministers are sharply divided over how to handle the spiralling Greek debt crisis, Dutch finance minister Jan Kees de Jager revealed as he attacked France's plans for a new rescue package.
(10) Kees van den Berg, from Utrecht, who was catching a taxi into town with his girlfriend, Martje, flashed an envelope containing €1,500.
(11) Only Lam Wing-kee has jumped bail while on a visit to Hong Kong in June to retrieve a computer database.
(12) The mobility of the loaded carrier as well as Kee increased with a decrease in lipid solubility of the nucleoside substrate, but the relationship was complex.
(13) "Substantial private-sector involvement is for the Netherlands and Germany a precondition," said the Dutch finance minister, Jan Kees de Jager, emphasising that investor participation, whether voluntary or not and whether triggering a Greek default or not, was paramount.
(14) Lam Wing-kee made his claims on Thursday evening at a news conference in Hong Kong, stoking fears about China violating individual freedoms and liberty in the former British colony.
(15) Robert Kee, who has died aged 93, belonged to a vanishing tradition of great TV documentary makers and presenters with roots in print journalism and books.
(16) Isaacs remembered trying to look over Kee's shoulder at the script Kee was working on and then offering a suggestion.
(17) The tools available in KEE were then used to identify the tumor type for a hypothetical patient.
(18) But when a documentary he made on the Falklands was edited by the producer in such a way as to give what Kee considered disproportionate coverage to the minority opponents of the war, he split with the BBC.
(19) "The contagion risk would be far, far smaller than one and a half years ago," said the Dutch finance minister, Jan Kees de Jager, of the effect of a Greek exit.
(20) Kee found himself able to support British governments of any political shade who tried to find a solution to the Irish problem, but he was not the sort of man to indulge himself in the approval of fudges.