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US
/ˈmeɪkɝ/
]
[ UK /mˈeɪkɐ/ ]
[ UK /mˈeɪkɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a business engaged in manufacturing some product
- a person who makes things
How To Use maker In A Sentence
- This contact of his had passed on to him a list of slightly disreputable jewelers and watchmakers in the area, on which I was rather impressed and a bit taken aback to find my appearance.
- The use of steam-driven bellows in blast furnaces helped ironmakers switch over from charcoal (limited in quantity) to coke, which is made from coal, in the smelting of pig iron.
- For winemakers in the Rhone, 2002 was a disastrous year, with violent storms and huge rainfall during the harvest.
- But the bears priced at the bottom level will not be vintage, and certainly will not be by any of these makers.
- The most storied place to find Gaucho boots is Casa Fagliano, a hole-in-the-wall bootmaker in Hurlingham, which is a British suburb of Buenos Aires. 20 Odd Questions: Stephanie Phair
- One thing's for sure: Rosen won't be trying to play the role of sole rainmaker.
- The cue maker then carefully chooses and seasons the wood, before tapering and sanding it down on a lathe.
- By contrast, when Procter & Gamble, the makers of Olestra, asked the FDA for permission to add its artificial fat substitute to potato chips, the controversial product was evaluated under food-additive laws.
- The RV maker last month posted its third-straight quarterly profit, topping Wall Street forecasts, as motor home deliveries rose.
- It cannot be a good sign that the filmmakers are largely impervious to the insecurity and suffering of wide layers of the population.