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121make-up — The amount of deficiency when a cash flow or capital item is deficient. For example, an interest make up relates to the interest amount above a ceiling percentage. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * make up UK US noun [S] ► the different people …
122make do — Synonyms and related words: beget, breed, bring forth, bring into being, call into being, change, change for, coin, commute, compound for, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, cope, design, develop, devise, discover, do with, dream up, dub in,… …
123make up — Synonyms and related words: accommodate, accomplish, accumulate, ad lib, adjust, agglomerate, aggregate, aggroup, amass, arrange, assemble, atone for, balance, batch, beget, blend, breed, brew, bring forth, bring into being, bring to completion,… …
124make do — v. (D; intr.) to make do with ( to manage with ) (we ll have to make do with this stove) * * * (D; intr.) to make do with (we ll have to make do with this stove; to manage with ) …
125make — [OE] Make probably goes back ultimately to an Indo European base *mag denoting ‘kneading’ (also the source of Greek mágma ‘salve made by kneading’, from which English gets magma [15]). A prehistoric Germanic descendant was *mako (source of… …
126make — I. n 1a. American an identification or instance of recognition (of a suspect) 1b. American a check in official records on the identity of a suspect or on another piece of evidence ► Run a make on this guy, will you? ► Can we have a make on the… …
127make it — 1) he ll never make it as a singer Syn: succeed, be a success, distinguish oneself, get ahead, make good; informal make the grade, arrive 2) she s very ill is she going to make it? Syn: survive, come through, pull through, get better …
128make up — 1) let s kiss and make up Syn: be friends again, bury the hatchet, make peace, forgive and forget, shake hands, settle one s differences 2) she tried to make up for what she d said Syn: atone, make amends, compensate …
