do without

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Verb

do without

1. (usually transitive) To manage despite the lack of.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 23:

     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.

   If you are prepared to do without a break in the summer, we could have a really good skiing holiday in winter.
   During the Great Depression, she learned to do without.
   I could do without the sarcasm.
2. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see do, without

Translations

• French: se passer de
• Italian: fare a meno
• Russian: обходи́ться
• Spanish: apañarse, arreglárselas, ingeniárselas

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