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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, modelling, fabrication, invention, forming, formation, moulding, 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.

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