Definition of Make do

1. Verb. Come to terms with. "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"


Definition of Make do

1. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic informal) to survive, get by with, or use whatever is available (due to lack of resources) ¹

2. Verb. (transitive informal) to put into action ¹

3. Verb. (transitive informal) To use for one's purpose something worn, defective, or intended for another purpose. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Make Do

make an example of
make an exhibition of oneself
make an offer
make as if
make away
make away with
make baby Jesus cry
make belief
make believe
make bold
make book
make clean
make common cause
make conscience
make do
make do and mend
make due
make ends meet
make eyes at
make faces
make file
make files
make for
make friends
make full
make fun
make fun of
make game of
make good

Literary usage of Make do

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy by Reginald Pecock (1860)
"... make, do, and ^eue tho thingis to the same ... as that it was not nede to Crist that he him silf schulde make, do, ..."

2. The Dialect of the English Gypsies by Bath Charles Smart, Henry Thomas Crofton (1875)
"... -v- \A '[ I make, do make, I will make, or do, etc. ... He, she, it, does, or will, make, do, etc. ..."

3. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"... I ransomed a slave by the way, and gave such and such a price. (Synonym» — unda, mould; imba, sing; umba, work ; i*ing<t, ji«, make, do ..."

4. An Oral System of Teaching Living Languages: Illustrated by a Practical by Jean Manesca (1845)
"DO,—make. do it,—make it. do it,—make it LET us DO,—let us make. do them,—make them. (2d p. let him do,—let him make. let them do,—let them make. (1) adv. ..."

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