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CMI

CMI is the initialism of coded mark inversion.

CMI is the initialism of Creation Ministries International.

CMI is the initialism of Credit Managers' Index.

CMI is the initialism of cannot make it.

Meaning of cannot make it

Verb

cannot make it

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cannot, make it.
  2. (Singapore, colloquial, idiomatic, stative) Cannot reach satisfactory or expected standards or do something competently; describes someone in a hopeless situation.
    • A noble effort but somehow the only words that came to mind were “cannot make it, lah”.2006 July 20, Zul Othman, Today, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Mediacorp Press, page 37

Forms of CMI

pluralCMIs

Questions about CMI

What is CMI the initialism of?
CMI is the initialism of coded mark inversion.

Words near CMI in the dictionary

  1. CMH
  2. CMHC
  3. CMHS
  4. CMHT
  5. CMHTs
  6. CMI
  7. CMIA
  8. CMIIAW
  9. cmiiw
  10. CMIO
  11. CMIOs

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