TO MAKE WAY

Definition: TO MAKE WAY

TO MAKE WAY

1. (a) To make progress; to advance. (b) To open a passage; to clear the way.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO MAKE WAY

This image shows the big stumps of the Brazilian Peppers that have been cut to make way for mangroves. Brazilian Pepper bushes can reach twenty feet in height. During the restoration, bushes as big as 9" in diameter were cleared to provide habitat for mangroves to recolonize. Without restoration efforts to clear Brazilian Pepper, the bush could take over mangrove habitat in two years time. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

These two houses were among the structures in Washington, D.C. considered good enough for Negro occupancy until they were demolished to make way for a housing project--The girl in the foreground is standing by an old wooden well. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rented house which will be torn down to make way for homes for defense workers of the expanding FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project of Radford, Virginia. From nine days to as little as four days notice has been given to tenants and landhold. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Thus it was easy, and almost natural for children, by a tacit, and scarce avoidable consent, to make way for the father's authority and government. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They have had to make way for me.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Bangladesh

The government did not take these steps, and the opposition has subsequently boycotted all elections, including municipal council elections in February 1999, several parliamentary by-elections, and the Chittagong city corporation elections in January 2000. The opposition demands that the Awami League government step down immediately to make way for a caretaker government to preside over paliamentary and local government. (references)

Human Rights

Bulgaria

In July as many as 240 Roma families were displaced when their illegally constructed homes in Sofia's residential neighborhood of Lyulin were demolished to make way for the construction of a new supermarket. (references)

Burma

To make way for commercial or public construction and, in some cases, for reasons of internal security and political control, the SPDC has relocated forcibly citizens to "new towns." Prevalent during the early 1990's, this practice has become somewhat less common in recent years. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "TO MAKE WAY": To make way with. Additional references.

Chinese 

�"路 . (various references)

German

Platz machen (move aside). (various references)

Hungarian

terjed (get about, to augment, to be propagated, to circulate, to diffuse, to multiply, to range), előrejut (to get along). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

通す (to continue, to keep, to let pass, to overlook). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

とおす (to continue, to keep, to let pass, to make way for, to overlook, to persist in). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay akemay ayway

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: atemoya.

-3 letters: tweaky.

-4 letters: atomy, awake, awoke, etyma, matey, meaty, motey, tokay, tweak.

-5 letters: amok, atma, atom, away, kame, kata, kayo, keto, kyat, kyte, make, mako, mate, maya, mayo, meat, meow, meta, moat, moke, mote, okay, taka, take, tame, teak, team, toea, toke, tome, towy, twae, tyke, wake, wame, weak, weka, woke, wyte, yoke.

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