squeeze

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We're also doing the best we can to provide more need-based aid for families in the middle-income range where the squeeze is the tightest right now.

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  1. transitive verb To press hard on or together; compress.
  2. transitive verb To press gently, as in affection: squeezed her hand.
  3. transitive verb To exert pressure on, as by way of extracting liquid: squeeze an orange.
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  • It focused on PPC (pay-per-click) marketing. in particular, the use of Google Adwords to drive traffic to either a presell page, a review page or a name squeeze page, in order to market a Clickbank digital product. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • As that credit squeeze is alleviated, the additional flow of funds that have already been pumped into the money supply will provide the after burners for a high intensity resumption of the precious metals bull. —  Financial Sense Newshour
  • The ensuing credit market squeeze, and a no short-selling rule on top, sucked the blood right out of hedge fund managers. —  Cara Community
  • A landing page-also known as "lead capture page" or "name squeeze page" - can help you in creating an email list by funneling all of your would-be subscribers. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • But typically, name squeeze pages, are individual landing pages that have a sole purpose, to get your email address. —  Search Engine Roundtable
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hug ·  shake ·  pat ·  rub ·  shove ·  nod ·  clasp ·  slap ·  handshake ·  tug ·  pinch ·  push

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squeeze:   squeezing ·  squeezed ·  squeezes
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Probably alteration of obsolete quease, to press, from Middle English queisen, from Old English cwȳsan.

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  1. Early modern English also squize, squise, English dial. also squizzen (also perversely squeege); with intensive s-, from Middle English queisen, squeeze, from Anglo-Saxon cwēsan, cwy¯san, cwīsan (in comp. tō-cwy¯san, tō-cwēsan), crush; cf. Swedish qväsa, squeeze, bruise; Dutch kwetsen = Middle High German quetzen, German quetschen, German dial. quetzen, crush, squash, bruise; Middle Low German quattern, quettern, squash, bruise; Gothic (Moesogothic) kwistjan, destroy; Lithuanian gaiszti, destroy.
  2. from squeeze, v.
 

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