Dictionary

do without en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To manage despite the lack of.
   • Coordinate term: go without
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • I could do without the sarcasm.
   • He liked Tom all right. […] Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing. 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 16:
   • During the Great Depression, she learned to do without.
   • If you are prepared to do without a break in the summer, we could have a really good skiing holiday in winter.

Forms

Deriveds

make it do or do without

Synonyms

dispense with · eschew

Translations (26)

pl obywać się bez (manage) · io karear (manage) · tr idare etmek (manage) · es ingeniárselas (manage) · es vivir sin ello (manage) · ru обойти́сь (manage) · es apañárselas (manage) · es arreglárselas (manage) · fi pärjätä ilman (manage) · es pasarse sin (manage) · es prescindir de ello (manage) · es componérselas (manage) · hu megvan (manage) · hu elvan (manage) · da klare sig uden (manage) · it fare a meno (manage) · pl obyć się bez (manage) · ar اِسْتَغْنَى (manage) · da undvære (manage) · fi tulla toimeen ilman (manage) · fr se passer de (manage) · ru обходи́ться (manage) · es pasar sin (manage) · hu lemond (manage) · es sobrarle (manage) · sv klara sig utan (manage)