Meaning of do without | Babel Free

Definitions

To manage despite the lack of.

transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Coordinate term: go without”

“If you are prepared to do without a break in the summer, we could have a really good skiing holiday in winter.”

“During the Great Depression, she learned to do without.”

“I could do without the sarcasm.”

“Let us consider the charges against this individual. Let us ask, Can we do without him?”

“We never owned a home. We moved all the time. But we never did without.”

“He liked Tom all right. […] Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.”

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