done without
Managed without having
Done without means managed or survived in the absence of something, typically something desirable or expected.
The phrase implies deprivation accepted out of necessity: During the war, families done without meat for months.
This grammatical form—using "done" rather than "did"—is dialectal, common in Southern American and some British regional speech.
Standard English uses "did without."
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- simplicityLack of complexity
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- frugalityEconomical resource management
- belt tighteningReducing expenditures deliberately
sacrifice · relinquishment · improvisation · compromise · omission · austerity · lack · resourcefulness · absence · concession · foregone · cut corners · make do · exclusion · left out · renunciation · forfeiture · void