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41match — A matched trade is one in which the details recorded by buyer and seller are equal and opposite. Contrast with an out trade where there is a disagreement of some sort on the details of the trade. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein financial glossary… …
42match — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a contest or game of skill etc. in which persons or teams compete against each other. 2 a a person able to contend with another as an equal (meet one s match; be more than a match for). b a person equal to another in some quality… …
43make — [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… …
44make — [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… …
45make — I UK [meɪk] / US verb Word forms make : present tense I/you/we/they make he/she/it makes present participle making past tense made UK [meɪd] / US past participle made *** Get it right: make: When make means to cause or force someone to do… …
46make — v. & n. v. (past and past part. made) 1 tr. construct; create; form from parts or other substances (made a table; made it out of cardboard; made him a sweater). 2 tr. (foll. by to + infin.) cause or compel (a person etc.) to do something (make… …
47match — I. /mætʃ / (say mach) noun 1. a short, slender piece of wood or other material tipped with a chemical substance which produces fire when rubbed on a rough or chemically prepared surface. 2. a wick, cord, or the like, prepared to burn at an even… …
48match — 1. noun /mætʃ/ a) Sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match. My local team are playing in a match against their arch rivals today. b) Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of… …
49match — There are two unrelated words match in English, of which the older is ‘counterpart’ [OE]. This goes back to an Old English gemæcca ‘mate’, whose ancestry can be traced to a prehistoric *gamakjon, a word based on the collective prefix *ga and *mak …
50make — {{11}}make (n.) match, mate, companion (now archaic or dialectal), from O.E. gemaca mate, equal; one of a pair, comrade; consort, husband, wife, from P.Gmc. *gamakon , related to O.E. gemæcc well matched, suitable, macian to make (see MAKE (Cf.… …
