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end
(redirected from making ends meet)

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end (Intent), noun aim, ambition, aspiration, bourn, consilium, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, deeired result, destination, dream, expectation, goal, guiding principle, hope, idea, intended result, intendment, mission, motivating idea, motivation, motive, object, objective, purpose, reason, target, wish
Associated concepts: ends of justice
end (Termination), noun accomplishment, achievement, adjournment, attainment, border, borderline, bound, cessation, close, closing piece, closure, completion, connluding part, conclusion, consummation, culmination, death, decease, decline, demise, denouement, departure, destination, destiny, determination, dissolution, edge, elimination, ending, estoppage, exitus, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, extreme, extreme point, extremity, fate, final event, final state, finale, finality, finis, fulfillment, furthermost part, halt, last of a series, last part, limit, limitation, omega, outcome, point, pole, realization, remnant, result, resultant, retirement, stop, stoppage, tail, terminal, terminal point, termination, terminus, tip, upshot, wane
See also: abandon, adhere to, annul, arrest, basis, border, cancel, cap, cause, cease, cessation, close, complete, conclude, conclusion, consummate, culminate, death, decide, defeasance, denouement, design, desist, destination, discontinue, dispatch, dissolution, dissolve, eliminate, eradicate, expiration, expire, extinguish, extirpate, extremity, final, finality, finish, goal, halt, impasse, intent, lapse, last, mete, moratorium, motive, object, objective, outcome, output, payoff, perform, periphery, point, project, purpose, pursuit, quash, reason, rescind, rest, result, settle, shut, stop, succumb, suppress, target, terminate, termination, ultimate


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But making ends meet on public assistance is also difficult.
Tamasha Earl, a nursing attendant at Martin Luther King-Drew Medical Center who is supporting three children on less than $2,000 a month and has collected food stamps, said she was making ends meet when her roommate was working, but he fell ill and had to stop working.
At a retirement ceremony, he told the press that he could have retired when he was in his 70s, but he continued working to support family members who were having a hard time making ends meet, or who were attending college.
 
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