to matchmake
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4.8
- verb
- /ˈmæʧˌmeɪk/
:
hacer de celestina
- "You aren't matchmaking again?"
So too, am I in the business of matchmaking my clients with specific needs and personalities, right?
- So too, am I in the business of matchmaking my clients with specific needs and personalities, right?
Examples
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He loves to matchmake for his friends, believing that true love is just a date away.
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Her friends always try to matchmake her with eligible bachelors at parties.
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The few dates I'd had were with men pushed at me by matchmaking friends, and most of them had been awful.
Fiction book (2000) -
Well, putting your children forth as adolescents and then matchmaking at the time of marriage.
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I tried a new church, which had only one single man in the right age range, and every old lady in the congregation tried to matchmake, getting very pushy even after we'd determined that we had nothing in common but age.
Blog text (14) -
He was matchmaking with Lazar; he saw that Lazar was attracted to you.
Fiction book (1994) -
She finally calmed down and took up the task of matchmaking, trying to set up Harry with Blair Bainbridge, a divinely handsome man who had moved next door to Harry's farm.
Fiction book (1995) -
Despite not being interested in dating, she found it amusing when her relatives would matchmake during family gatherings.
Synonyms
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2.0
To bring people or things together because they suit each other
Antonyms
How Involved
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7.1
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3.4
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- Informal
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2.8
∞
1.8
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2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Matchmake comes from match ('a pair that goes well') and make ('to cause'); like a traditional matchmaker who finds partners, it means arranging romantic pairs. So, to matchmake is to try to bring two people together as a couple.