MAKE WAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does make way mean? 

• MAKE WAY (verb)
  The verb MAKE WAY has 1 sense:

1. get out of the way

  Familiarity information: MAKE WAY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKE WAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get out of the way

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

make way for the President's motorcade

Hypernyms (to "make way" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Residents were told to stay off the roads and businesses and ferries were closed to make way for vaccination teams.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)

Indeed, Mr. Bennet, said she, it is very hard to think that Charlotte Lucas should ever be mistress of this house, that I should be forced to make way for her, and live to see her take her place in it!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Rushworth was quite ready to retire, and make way for the fortunate young woman whom her dear son had selected; and very early in November removed herself, her maid, her footman, and her chariot, with true dowager propriety, to Bath, there to parade over the wonders of Sotherton in her evening parties; enjoying them as thoroughly, perhaps, in the animation of a card-table, as she had ever done on the spot; and before the middle of the same month the ceremony had taken place which gave Sotherton another mistress.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

On Thursday local time, the government of Samoa began a planned two-day shutdown to make way for a nationwide vaccination campaign to combat the measles outbreak that had, by reports, infected over 4,200 of the island nation's roughly 200,0000 residents since October and killed at least 62, including 54 small children.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)