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- noun Plural form of
match-maker .
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Examples
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Next time, lets be good progressive match-makers and hook these two up.
Think Progress » Passing Health Reform Would Contribute To Obama’s Deficit Reduction Goals 2010
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Around the country, a new crop of match-makers are helping the two groups find each other and make arrangements that enable both sides to share resources and grow their own food.
The Rise of the Lazy Locavore Katy McLaughlin 2010
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They are the match-makers of the business world and they're masters of their trade.
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They are the match-makers of the business world and they're masters of their trade.
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GRACE: So animals are not just pet detectives, they ` re match-makers.
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Melmond had strongly in his favour the received maxim amongst match-makers, that a young lady without fortune has a less and less chance of getting off upon every public appearance, which they call a public failure: their joint deliberations were, however, interrupted by an abrupt intrusion of Molly
Camilla 2008
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GRACE: So animals are not just pet detectives, they ` re match-makers.
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Though it has been found that to contract marriages through the agency of match-makers is humiliating, it is nevertheless a thousand times preferable to our system.
The Kreutzer Sonata 2003
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The fact was that it was easier to find there women of the industrial class, match-makers, pearl-stringers, workers in glass or lace, working women in black shawls with long fringes.
The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003
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Children, most astute of match-makers, plot their campaigns quickly, and Sally had played a clever correspondence sonata to
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