Squeeze的常见含义表示“挤压；塞进”。

Squeeze也可以表示“资金紧缩”，此时作名词表示“削减，拮据，经济困难”。

profits squeeze利润的减少

credit squeeze贷款紧缩

monetary squeeze货币紧缩

参考双语例句：

This reduction in financial liquidity, the so-called “credit squeeze”, has resulted in a reduction of developing countries’ trade opportunities.

这种金融流动性的减少，所谓的“信贷紧缩 ”，导致发展中国家贸易机会减少。

The credit squeeze is the result of a combination of factors limiting both supply and demand, associated with the fall in economic activity and the loss of wealth experienced by economic agents, most notably towards the end of 2008.

各种因素造成了信贷紧缩，由于经济活动减少，经济行为主体的财富缩水，尤其是在2008年底时，因此供求都受到限制。

However, in many of the Latam Countries, ‘squeeze out’ procedures are in place, which allow the purchaser of a majority stake in a company to force the minority shareholders to sell their holdings (subject to certain requirements and limitations, this is the case in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru as regards listed companies, and in Venezuela and Colombia for simplified stock companies).

然而，许多拉美国家都设有“排挤”办法，这就允许在公司中拥有大多数股权的买方，迫使少数股东出售其持有的股份(但须符合某些要求和限制，这些情况存在于阿根廷、巴西、智利和秘鲁的上市公司，以及在委内瑞拉和哥伦比亚的简化股份公司)。