Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To have enough money to cover expenses; to get by financially; to get through the pay period (sufficient to meet the next payday).
Usage examples of "make ends meet".
They went hungry for a long time setting up these new agricultures, foraging also up on the surface when they had to, in the scraps of the humans, to make ends meet.
Her mother took boarders into their Pittsburgh home to make ends meet.
For example, to make ends meet, a man may have to send his wife to work as a menial among the Faithfulthat's where the maids, the cooks, the scullions in those fine houses outside the Quarter come from.
They don't touch the five hundred pounds but struggle along to make ends meet like she'd originally said they could.
Families that worked with the land and one another to make ends meet.
And if she could only marry him and get her hands on that money, she could make ends meet at Tara for another year.