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     • make way (for someone or something) to clear a path for someone or something.
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   What does make way mean?

   • Make way for the stretcher. Here comes the doctor—make way! to make progress; to move ahead. (Originally nautical. See also make way (for someone or something).) Is this project making way? A sailboat can't make way if there is no wind. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 1.

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   What does make your own way mean?

   • This usage was first recorded about 1400. 2. Also, make one's own way. Advance in life by one's own efforts, His family hasn't much money so he'll just have to make his own way in the world.

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   What does make mean?

   • Get Word of the Day daily email! The meaning of MAKE is to bring into being by forming, shaping, or altering material : fashion. How to use make in a sentence.

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   What does make way for a wheelchair mean?

   • 1. Allow room for passage, move aside, as in Please make way for the wheelchair. This expression was first recorded about 1200. 2. Also, make way for. Leave room for a successor or substitute, as in It's time he retired and made way for some younger professor. [Mid-1700s]

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   What happens if one person makes way for another?

   • If one person or thing makes way for another, the first is replaced by the second. He said he was prepared to make way for younger people in the party. A number of houses would have to be demolished to make way for the new building. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. 2.

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   make way. If one person or thing makes way for another, the first is replaced by the second. He said he was prepared to make way for younger people in the party. A number of houses would have to be demolished to make way for the new building. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

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   make way. 1. To move aside so that someone or something can pass. We ask that everyone please make way for the students as they process down the aisle. Make way, people. Stretcher coming through. 2. To make progress.

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   make way (for something/somebody) From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English make way (for something/somebody) a) to move to the side so that there is space for someone or something to pass The crowd stepped aside to make way for the procession. b) to make it possible for something newer or better to be built, organized etc Several houses ...

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   make way for something. idiom. Add to word list. to provide a space or an opportunity for something else: Some beautiful old buildings were torn down to make way for the new parking garage.

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   a. : to cause to happen to or be experienced by someone. made trouble for us. b. : to cause to exist, occur, or appear : create. make a disturbance. c. : to favor the growth or occurrence of. haste makes waste.

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   1. To move aside so that someone or something can pass. We ask that everyone please make way for the students as they process down the aisle. Make way, people. Stretcher coming through. 2. To make progress.

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   Jul 5, 2024 · make way (third-person singular simple present makes way, present participle making way, simple past and past participle made way) (figuratively) To make progress. He was starting to make his way in the world. (nautical, of a vessel) To progress through the water.