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making it count

making it count is the present participle and gerund of make it count.

Meaning of make it count

Verb

make it count (third-person singular simple present makes it count, present participle making it count, simple past and past participle made it count)

  1. To make something have as useful and positive an effect as possible.
    • You only get one chance, so you have to make it count.

Questions about making it count

What is making it count the present participle and gerund of?
Making it count is the present participle and gerund of make it count.

Words near making it count in the dictionary

  1. making history
  2. making interesting
  3. making into
  4. making it
  5. making it big
  6. making it count
  7. making it interesting
  8. making it one's business
  9. making it one's life
  10. making it rain
  11. making it snappy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: making it count (page history and authors); make it count (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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