Squeeze
X squeezes Y (verb) - X creates a difficult situation for Y, X presses Y tightly
a squeeze on profits
a margin squeeze
a cash squeeze
a job squeeze
a pay squeeze
a squeeze on profits
a squeeze on jobs
a squeeze on manufacturing
a squeeze on pay
a credit squeeze
squeeze on credit and wages
fat wages like these are putting a financial squeeze on America's national pastime, baseball
the cash squeeze on the newly opened firm could strangle it
capital spending had been cut back from original plans to offset the squeeze on profitability
faced higher costs and a squeeze on profits
place an unacceptable squeeze on the private sector
a public sector pay freeze and a squeeze on benefits
a squeeze on liquidity
a severe squeeze on company liquidity
the squeeze on benefits
the job outlook remains weak and the squeeze on profits persists
the squeeze on spending is starting to hit beer sales
the magazine industry is having problems with smaller titles feeling the squeeze
measures place an unacceptable squeeze on the private sector
the tighter squeeze on the economy would now lead to a more rapid deceleration in inflation in the first half of next year
the squeeze on the customer's pocket
the squeeze on holiday prices
increased competition put the squeeze on producers and forced them to cut costs and improve productivity
putting the squeeze on inflation
the financial squeeze on universities
put the squeeze on them
the squeeze on profit margins resulting from higher costs per chip and lower prices
the tax squeeze on middle income earners could hit house prices
the job outlook remains weak and the squeeze on profits persists
the squeeze on his income may mean that his wife would have to look for work
the squeeze on local government budgets
the effects of a squeeze on the monetary base
banks could hold reserve assets above the statutory minimum, thus helping them to resist a squeeze on reserves
warned trade unions to think again about a strategy of industrial action against the Government's squeeze on public sector pay
America, where the squeeze on banks is tightest
squeeze on the supply of local currency
blame a combination of falling interest rates and a drive among consumers to pay off credit cards for the squeeze on funds
younger students are caught in a double bind between a lack of jobs if they leave and a squeeze on higher education if they stay
a pay squeeze on the public sector
the drive to put the squeeze on government spending
the continued squeeze on defence procurement
The long-overdue squeeze on the public-sector workforce
the squeeze on hospital budgets
the financial squeeze on the universities
Example sentences:
* The cash squeeze on the newly opened firm could strangle it, claims its manager.
* Capital spending had been cut back from original plans to offset the squeeze on profitability.
* Although the squeeze on profits occurred during very different time periods, the falls were quite similar: profit shares declined to around 80 per cent of peak levels almost everywhere.
* Whereas the bulk of industry faced higher costs and a squeeze on profits, the oil majors had a profit bonanza.
* Put the squeeze on them.
* The Prime Minister today warned trade unions to think again about a strategy of industrial action against the Government's squeeze on public sector pay.
* A public sector pay freeze and a squeeze on benefits are thought to be among the main items in the package.
* But the job outlook remains weak and the squeeze on profits persists, while there is continuing optimism about the export outlook and signs that companies are preparing to rebuild stocks.
* Most economists believe that the tighter squeeze on the economy would now lead to a more rapid deceleration in inflation in the first half of next year than had been expected before yesterday's base rate increase.
* With the advent of the poll tax and higher interest rates, the squeeze on the customer's pocket seems likely to act as a curb on the current trend towards trading-up to more expensive, quality wines.
* Thomson Travel's profit contribution to the Canadian parent was down ?10.7million to ?53.1million in the nine months to September 30 as a result of the squeeze on holiday prices and poor late sales.
* Warrington-based Greenall Whitley yesterday became the latest brewer to complain that the squeeze on spending is starting to hit beer sales.
* Even America, where the squeeze on banks is tightest, is still a long way from a banking collapse like that of the 1930s.
* Recession is guaranteed for several months to come by higher taxes, higher interest rates and an exchange rate depressed both by a squeeze on the supply of local currency and by a surfeit of dollars from the booming trade in cocaine paste.
* Normally the Japanese would have to accept the squeeze on profit margins resulting from higher costs per chip and lower prices, and indeed memory-chip prices are falling in most markets as producers chase slumping demand.
* Trafalgar House's Sir Eric Parker says the tax squeeze on middle income earners could hit house prices.
* But the job outlook remains weak and the squeeze on profits persists, while there is continuing optimism about the export outlook and signs that companies are preparing to rebuild stocks.
* He says that the squeeze on his income under a Labour government may mean that his wife would have to look for work, or he may seriously consider taking his skills abroad.
* Few would deny that the CMHTs almost immediately ran into problems due to the squeeze on local government budgets and found themselves scrabbling around for alternative resources.
* As the government has ruled out cutting the subscription to CERN, the European centre for particle physics, those statements point to a continuing squeeze on nuclear physics.
* Banks blame a combination of falling interest rates and a drive among consumers to pay off credit cards for the squeeze on funds.
* My feeling is that the younger students are caught in a double bind between a lack of jobs if they leave and a squeeze on higher education if they stay.
* Putting the squeeze on.
* If he tries to put the squeeze on you I've got him.
* A pay squeeze on the public sector is on the way, Chancellor Lamont warned last night.
* The Treasury number two has targeted the most vulnerable in the drive to put the squeeze on government spending.
* And fat wages like these are putting a financial squeeze on America's national pastime, baseball.
* The continued squeeze on defence procurement, combined with a demand for ever-more complex weaponry, has encouraged NATO to think the once-unthinkable: a code of practice for defence companies that should wring better value for money out of what used to be one of the capitalist world's most protected and pampered industries.
* The long-overdue squeeze on the public-sector workforce will save some more, though there are reports that unpublicised redundancy payments are eating up much of what is saved in wages.
* Despite the squeeze on hospital budgets, health professionals visiting from the United Kingdom are likely to be struck more strongly in the leading New York voluntary hospitals by the relatively lavish level at which they are equipped than by their shortage of money, perhaps because they can shape the patient population that they actually serve to match the funding available.
* When Sir Eric was appointed Rector in 1985 everyone was congratulating themselves that the financial squeeze on the universities, which had lasted 15 years, was now at an end and that stable funding was just around the corner.
* If he tries to put the squeeze on you I've got him.
* The measures introduced before the oil price rise was tending to generate a runaway wage-price spiral, but since prices were to some extent constrained by continuing state controls there was also a severe squeeze on company liquidity, with its threat to employment.
* Yeah, I'd like to speak about the the squeeze on benefits.
* Now for the bad news: the strategy of reducing government deficits, devaluation and a squeeze on credit and wages has its casualties.
* Increased competition in the international economy put the squeeze on North American and Western European producers and forced them to cut costs and improve productivity.
* This involved setting targets each year for the growth of money supply over the following four years: the targets got progressively tighter over the four years, thus putting the squeeze on inflation.
* Trace through the effects of a squeeze on the monetary base from an initial reduction in cash to banks' liquidity being restored by the rediscounting of bills.
* As with cash ratios, banks could hold reserve assets above the statutory minimum, thus helping them to resist a squeeze on reserves (but not indefinitely).
* With more A-level passes coupled with the financial squeeze on some universities the competition for places is greater than ever this year.
* Too high a PSBR requires either that the government borrow heavily from the banks --; which adds directly to the money supply --; or, failing this, that it borrows from individuals and institutions, but at ever-increasing rates of interest, which place an unacceptable squeeze on the private sector.';
