make do
Verb
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Succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available (synset 202593624)
"We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"subtypes:
- extemporize, improvise - manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand
- fend - try to manage without help
- cut, hack - be able to manage or manage successfully
- rub along, scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by - manage one's existence barely
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