"make both ends meet" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "makes both ends meet",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
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    },
    {
      "form": "making both ends meet",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made both ends meet",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "made both ends meet",
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        "past"
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        "1": "make<,,made> both ends meet"
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1661, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England:",
          "text": "(entry on Archbishop Edmund Grindall) Worldly wealth he cared not for, desiring only to make both ends meet; and as for that little that lapped over he gave it to pious uses.",
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        {
          "ref": "1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC, page 5:",
          "text": "Do you know what it is to be poor? Not poor with the arrogant poverty complained of by certain people who have five or six thousand a year to live upon, and who yet swear they can hardly manage to make both ends meet, but really poor, […]",
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        "Synonym of make ends meet"
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        "(now uncommon) Synonym of make ends meet"
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          "word": "make ends meet"
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  "word": "make both ends meet"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes both ends meet",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making both ends meet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made both ends meet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made both ends meet",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1661, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England:",
          "text": "(entry on Archbishop Edmund Grindall) Worldly wealth he cared not for, desiring only to make both ends meet; and as for that little that lapped over he gave it to pious uses.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC, page 5:",
          "text": "Do you know what it is to be poor? Not poor with the arrogant poverty complained of by certain people who have five or six thousand a year to live upon, and who yet swear they can hardly manage to make both ends meet, but really poor, […]",
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        "(now uncommon) Synonym of make ends meet"
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