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making
noun
1 the making of the cars:
manufacture, manufacturing, mass production, building, construction, assembly, production, producing, creation, creating, putting together, modeling, fabrication, invention, forming, formation, molding, forging, composition.
antonyms destruction.
2 (makings) does she have the makings of a champion?:
qualities, characteristics, ingredients, potential, promise, capacity, capability;
essentials, essence, beginnings, rudiments, basics, materials, stuff.
in the making
he was a major heroic actor in the making:
budding, burgeoning, coming, emergent, growing, developing, nascent, potential, promising, up and coming, incipient.