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make one's number

make one's number verb: to report one's arrival and begin one's duties.

Verb

make one's number (third-person singular simple present makes one's number, present participle making one's number, simple past and past participle made one's number)

  1. To report one's arrival and begin one's duties.
    • Dave Shaw had given me good advice. 'Make your number with the purser,' he had said. 'He's a kind of super marine hotel manager who can wave a magic wand and get you almost anything you ask for.'1972, Stephen Seamus Kerry, Ship's Doctor, page 49

Forms of make one's number

third-person singular presentmakes one's number
present participlemaking one's number
past participlemade one's number
pastmade one's number

Questions about make one's number

What does make one's number mean?
Make one's number means to report one's arrival and begin one's duties.
What part of speech is make one's number?
Make one's number is a verb.
What is the past tense of make one's number?
The past tense of make one's number is made one's number.

Words near make one's number in the dictionary

  1. make one's entrance
  2. make one's exit
  3. make one's hand
  4. make one's manners
  5. make one's mark
  6. make one's number
  7. make one's own
  8. make one's own luck
  9. make one's presence felt
  10. make one's toilet
  11. make one's way

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