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💄 Cosmetics 📅 Replacement event 🧬 Combination of parts
make-up

make-up

18 3.5
An event that takes place later to replace one cancelled or missed
  • noun
  • /ˈmeɪkˌʌp/
translation icon : sesión de recuperación
  • But right now districts are eyeing Thanksgiving week and other fall holidays to make up the missed time.

Examples

  • The school scheduled a make-up class for students who missed the original lesson.

  • If there were unscheduled absences, sessions were made up when the child returned to school.

    Academic text (2014)

  • The district administration and teachers will work with you to make up work missed and address attendance.

    Blog text (19)

  • Worse, he did not show up for the make-up tests.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • You will take a make-up exam right now.

    Go for It! (2011)

  • From school clubs to ball games to school programs and class make-up, diversity should be valued and celebrated.

    Academic text (2006)

  • You can take a make-up exam tomorrow at 12:00 noon.

    Teen Wolf Too (1987)

  • Licensor reserves the right to suspend all future classes to be made up at a later date.

    Blog text (9)

  • Due to the storm, we will have a make-up day next week to complete the postponed activities.

  • After missing the game, he was excited to hear about the make-up match this Saturday.

Synonyms

makeup
vsmake-up
  • US
20 4.2

A test or game held later to replace a missed one

is the same meaning but written with a hyphen

How Official

make-up
18 3.5
nonconference
  • Informal
7.2

Surface Forms

make-up singular
make-ups plural

Morphology

make-up = make (semi-transparent) = up + make

The replacement sense is built from the idea of 'making up' for something missed, but that meaning is not fully predictable from the literal parts alone. [Postprocessing: moved 'up' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Make-up for a replacement event comes from the phrase make + up, which can mean to 'do later' or 'fix what was missed'. So a make-up (like a make-up exam or game) is the time set to do the thing again after it was cancelled.