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

The local music community were early detractors of Lollapalooza, criticizing the festival and the city for squeezing out other venues and not allowing bands to play there within months of the August event. —Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 1 Aug. 2024

But on this occasion, at least, the Serb was flat, the sparkle squeezed out of him by the future of men’s tennis, a player 16 years his junior. —Aimee Lewis, CNN, 14 July 2024

Disney is the closest to building a semblance of a Netflix rival, barely squeezing out a profit in parts of its streaming business in the first quarter. —Samantha Delouya, CNN, 6 Aug. 2024

The barrel was still partially squeezed out of the channel. —Jim Carmichel, Outdoor Life, 25 July 2024

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.