The word 'eke' is a valid and usable word in written English.
It is a verb that means to supplement or increase with difficulty. It can also mean to manage to make a living with difficulty. Example: "In order to eke out a living, the farmers had to work long hours and take on extra jobs."
"The official data confirm business survey data which show the Eurozone economy struggling to expand in the face of numerous headwinds but nevertheless managing to eke out modest growth and avoid recession.
The first play of his that I ever saw featured self-crucifixion in the living room - certainly not your everyday happy families scenario - and Kelly often uses classic suspense techniques that have the structure of a good thriller in the way they eke out information.
These techniques maximise the transactive capacity of the urban fabric, wrest the very last increment of value from the energy invested in the production of manufactured goods, and allow millions to eke a living, however precarious, from the most unpromising of circumstances.
He came to the crease in the 11th over after Rohit Sharma's dismissal and proceeded to eke out 11 from 21 balls.
The car should eke out 50 miles to the gallon, Mr Tata says.
If he were to eke out a victory, many Republicans would claim a mandate to slash taxes, welfare and other spending.
This translates into higher profits if customers can eke more life out of an older handset.
Mr Magnus thinks the global economy might be able to eke out a meagre growth rate but "if you don't have credit growth operating, it is hard to sustain spending while unemployment is still rising .The bears argue that although governments may have stabilised the banking system, they have not been able to restart private-sector lending.
By his telling, Germany's employment boom is in fact a state-sponsored poverty programme, where armies of the underemployed eke out miserable wages in dead-end jobs.Not so, says Michael Hüther, director of the Cologne Institute for Economic Research, an employer-financed think-tank.
It could now eke out a tiny majority if it combined with the other two left-leaning parties: the SPD and the Greens.To many on Germany's centre-left such a "red-red-green" alliance is the holy grail at the federal level to replace governments led by Mrs Merkel.
In Ahmaghieh, for instance, a new suburb of the north-western city of Tabriz, some 60,000 people, many of them rural migrants, eke out a precarious existence market-gardening, carpet-weaving and (the lucky few) working in local factories.
