do without (sth)
— phrasal verb with do uk/də//du//duː/us/də//du//duː/verb did, done
B2 to manage without having something:
There's no mayonnaise left, so you'll just have to do without.
Thank you, Kate, we can do without language like that (= we don't want to hear your offensive language).
More examples
- Being on the committee is one involvement I could do without.
- He's an integral part of the team and we can't do without him.
- I don't know what I'd have done without Lizzie when I was ill - she was an absolute treasure.
- We can't afford to fix the car this month, so I guess we'll need to do without it for a few weeks.
- Surely you can do without television for a week?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- be at a premium idiom
- be thin on the ground idiom
- dearth
- deficiency
- deficient
- gold dust
- late
- long on sth and short on sth idiom
- lousy
- meagre
- measly
- mingy
- nearly
- rare
- scarcity
- shortage
- shortfall
- sparse
- supply
- thin
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