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💄 Cosmetics 🧬 Composition 📝 Replacement event
makeup

makeup

20 4.2
A test or game held later to replace a missed one
  • noun
  • /ˈmeɪkʌp/
  • US
translation icon : examen de recuperación
  • When appropriate, consider providing an opportunity to students for constructive makeup work and attendance.
  • makeup work

Another time the plane broke going to Texas and when I made did the makeup date.

Examples

  • Students completed weekly curriculum-based measurement (CBM) probes on the Friday of each week (Monday was used for makeups).

    Academic text (2014)

  • Absent students participated in makeup sessions the following morning, taught using the same lesson plans.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Extra reading over vacation and no makeup test?

    The Holdovers (2023)

  • "So can I take a makeup exam?"

    Fiction book (1997)

  • The makeup work should be constructive and a valid learning experience for the student.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The class I had to cancel and offer makeups if needed had 12 students in it.

    Blog text (11)

  • We schedule makeup classes on some time that's convenient.

  • After missing the original test date, she was relieved to learn that she could take the makeup test next week.

  • The coach announced that there would be a makeup game scheduled for Friday to replace the one that had been canceled.

  • Due to the rainout, the baseball team will have a makeup game on Saturday to complete their season.

Synonyms

make-up
vsmakeup
18 3.5

An event that takes place later to replace one cancelled or missed

is written without a hyphen in modern usage

Antonyms

cancellation
  • Texting
63 1.9

Stopping something planned so it no longer happens

How Official

match
517 1.4
makeup
  • US
20 4.2
to reschedule
109 3.0
casual
50 2.5

Surface Forms

makeup singular
makeups plural

Morphology

makeup = make + up (transparent) = make + up

The noun 'makeup' (as in 'makeup exam') is a nominalization of 'make up' meaning 'to compensate for or replay something missed', a relation learners can deduce from the phrasal verb.

Etymology

Makeup comes from the phrase make up, meaning 'to make something again' or 'to make up for' something missed. So a makeup is an event or test held later to replace one that was missed.