make room

English

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Verb

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

1. (idiomatic) To rearrange or organize existing people, objects, furniture, belongings, etc., to create space for new objects.

   I moved the books off my desk to make room for my labtop.

   • 1949 May and June, “A Middlesex Inn Sign”, in Railway Magazine, page 142:

     This tunnel was 326 yd. long, and the portals were designed by Brunel to represent Norman archways. It was converted into an open cutting, between 1887 and 1889, to make room for the shunting necks of the sidings at Bristol East Depot.

Translations

to create space for new objects

Danish: gør plads Finnish: tehdä tilaa German: Platz machen, Platz schaffen Greek: κάνω χώρο (káno chóro) Ancient: χωρέω (khōréō) Portuguese: abrir espaço Romanian: face loc Russian: потесниться (ru) (potesnitʹsja), подвинуться (ru) (podvinutʹsja) Spanish: hacer sitio, hacer lugar Turkish: yer açmak (tr)