Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or practice of setting one's self to bring about marriages.
- Tending to make matches; active in bringing about marriages.
Wiktionary
- n. An attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage.
- n. business A service aiming to bring together sellers and buyers or potential partners.
- n. video games The act or process of locating suitable players to take part in a multiplayer game session.
- v. present participle of matchmake.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning.
- n. The act or process of trying to bring about a marriage for others.
- adj. Busy in making or contriving marriages.
WordNet 3.0
- n. mediation in order to bring about a marriage between others
Etymologies
- compound match + making (Wiktionary)
Examples
“� Take part in matchmaking sessions/one-on-one short meetings with buyers and lenders”
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“Guess matchmaking is an ancient profession, all the same.”
“Do you think the widespread interest in scientific matchmaking is in part the result of people feeling overwhelmed by the complexities of modern life, and the burden of too much freedom?”
“His matchmaking was a good deed from their point of view, pure and simple.”
“I have a good eye for a nice swatch and a surprising paint chip, and I have had a checkered but occasionally successful sideline in matchmaking.”
“Closing out the panel, Pardo addressed the idea of matchmaking in games, saying it's incredibly tricky to do.”
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“Not only will they have that chance in Seattle next week, Christen said his team will focus on that kind of matchmaking, smoothing the way across cultures, languages and cell phone operating systems.”
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“For volunteers like us, a growing list of online "matchmaking" services will connect us with short-term volunteer projects that are geographically convenient and match our personal interests.”
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
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