do without
verb1
To manage despite the lack of.
- Coordinate term: go without
- If you are prepared to do without a break in the summer, we could have a really good skiing holiday in winter.
4 more examples
- During the Great Depression, she learned to do without.
- I could do without the sarcasm.
- Let us consider the charges against this individual. Let us ask, Can we do without him?1916 March 11, H.G. Wells, “What is Coming”, in Saturday Evening Post:
- We never owned a home. We moved all the time. But we never did without.1990 February 4, Pam Mitchell, quoting Gerry Scoppettuolo, “Pro-Union And Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 18:
- Derived terms
- make it do or do without