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difficult financial position (ABelonogov); financial squeeze (But the study also offers a sobering reminder about the financial squeeze on families at the bottom. Small businesses are beginning to feel the financial squeeze. LDOCE. Whole generation of first-time buyers face financial squeeze | ... common theme running through the conference was that mental health services find themselves under-resourced and in a financial squeeze. | ... inhaled too much of its own commercial hokum to have noticed that the rest of us are in a financial squeeze. Alexander Demidov); squeeze (a strong financial demand or pressure, typically a restriction on borrowing, spending, or investment in a financial crisis: industry faced higher costs and a squeeze on profits. NOED. • All manufacturers are feeling the squeeze. • Hospitals have been in a squeeze for some time. • The government is trying to put the squeeze on high earners. OALD Alexander Demidov) |
