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Definition

To subsist; to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimal level.

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In Context

  • "Do you think they can get by on only one salary?"
  • "Good girls do bad things sometimes / But we get by with it / Good girls do bad things sometimes / But we get by with it"
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