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make good

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. make goodverb

    act as promised

    "make good on promises"

Wiktionary

  1. make goodverb

    To achieve substantial success in life, often in business.

  2. make goodverb

    To complete successfully.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. make good

    A phrase used sometimes in the wording of sentences in proceedings of courts-martial in the case of deserters; as, he will make good the time lost by desertion.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of make good in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of make good in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of make good in a Sentence

  1. Thomas Tusser:

    At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

  2. Patrick Henry:

    Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

  3. Christine Coleman:

    I always say this to parents, 'Would you allow your child on the subway at two in the morning?' no. We teach our children to make good choices. So you need to teach them to make good choices with social media.

  4. Howard Baskin:

    I loved Don and I feel like whatever happened to him happened to him because of the fact that he had such a problem mentally, he just wasn't able to make good decisions for himself.

  5. Shinya Yamanaka:

    If we can make good use of resources at places like university labs, PCR testing can exceed 100,000 (per day), far more than 20,000.


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