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maker
[ mey-ker ]
noun
- a person or thing that makes.
- a manufacturer (used in combination):
a drugmaker; a garmentmaker.
- (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who has the hobby of creating tangible physical products, especially do-it-yourself technology and engineering projects or handmade crafts (often used attributively): The maker movement fosters hands-on creativity in a sedentary world of passive entertainment options.
Makers came together at the convention to collaborate with each other and show off their completed products.
The maker movement fosters hands-on creativity in a sedentary world of passive entertainment options.
- (initial capital letter) God.
- the party executing a legal instrument, especially a promissory note.
- Cards. the player who first names the successful bid.
- Archaic. a poet.
Maker
1/ ˈmeɪkə /
noun
- a title given to God
- go to meet one's Maker or meet one's Makerto die
maker
2/ ˈmeɪkə /
noun
- a person who makes (something); fabricator; constructor
- a person who executes a legal document, esp one who signs a promissory note
- archaic.a poet Also called (esp Scot)makar
Other Words From
- pre·maker noun
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- go to / meet one's Maker, to die.
Example Sentences
Major packaged food makers including Quaker Oats and Folgers coffee asked Trump for targeted exemptions from tariffs on imports such as cocoa and fruit, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
They turned to Brown - then the boss of a sports marketing agency called JMI, and well known in F1 as a deal maker and sponsor finder.
Its makers say the hand-picked suggestions give you a better chance of finding quality titles outside the mainstream.
Canadian provinces pulling US alcohol off store shelves in response to Trump trade policy is "worse than tariffs", the boss of Jack Daniel's maker Brown-Forman has said.
But it has the capacity to lower interest rates, and healthy public finances, providing policy makers with scope to cushion the blow for Canadians.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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