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What does get by mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word get by? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To subsist; to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimal level.
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Talia's an abusive foster mother, scamming the system, that's what she has to do to get by.
At least she can just get by on her pension, but when her teakettle burned up last week she couldn't even afford a new one.
But not all of you will require a working knowledge of English grammar to get by in life.
But after seven months in which my wife and I spent every hour together, it is so hard for me to get by without her joyfulness.
If you are stabling Shetlands rather than warmbloods you can get by with a smaller stall.
Someday, all of us will have to become workaholics, happy or not, just to get by.

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