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41make good on sth — ► to do something that you have promised to do, for example paying back money that you owe or paying for the cost of damage you have caused: »The company did not acknowledge its future obligation to make good on the losses sustained by its… …
42make a fool (out) of someone — phrase to deliberately make someone seem stupid, for example by tricking them I felt that Sally had made a complete fool of me. Thesaurus: to cheat or trick someonesynonym Main entry: fool …
43Make-a-Wish Foundation, the — Make a Wish Foun,dation, the noun a CHARITY that helps children who are very sick to get something they want, for example to meet someone famous or travel to a foreign country …
44make a pass at someone — phrase to try to start a sexual relationship with someone, for example by talking to them or touching them in a sexual way Thesaurus: to start a romantic or sexual relationshipsynonym Main entry: pass …
45make allowance(s) for something — make allowance(s) for sth idiom to consider sth, for example when you are making a decision or planning sth • The budget made allowance for inflation. • The plan makes no allowance for people working at different rates. Main entry:… …
46make — I [[t]me͟ɪk[/t]] CARRYING OUT AN ACTION ♦ makes, making, made (Make is used in a large number of expressions which are explained under other words in this dictionary. For example, the expression to make sense is explained at sense .) 1) VERB You… …
47Example (rapper) — Infobox musical artist Name = Example Img capt = Example Landscape = Background = solo singer Birth name = Elliot John Gleave Alias = example:/XMPL Born = Birth date and age|1982|6|20|mf=y Died = Origin = Hammersmith, London, England Instrument …
48make — make1 W1S1 [meık] v past tense and past participle made [meıd] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(produce)¦ 2¦(do)¦ 3¦(cook)¦ 4¦(cause)¦ 5¦(force)¦ 6¦(mark/hole etc)¦ 7 make it 8 make the meeting/the party/Tuesday etc 9¦(achieve something)¦ …
49make-believe — 1) N UNCOUNT (disapproval) If someone is living in a make believe world, they are pretending that things are better, different, or more exciting than they really are instead of facing up to reality. The man lived in a make believe world… …
50Example-based machine translation — The Example based machine translation (EBMT) approach to machine translation is often characterized by its use of a bilingual corpus with parallel texts as its main knowledge base, at run time. It is essentially a translation by analogy and can… …
