Matchmaking

Quick meaning: Matchmaking is a noun meaning (business) A service aiming to bring together sellers and buyers or potential partners.

Meaning

(business) A service aiming to bring together sellers and buyers or potential partners.

More Meanings

1. (video games) The act or process of locating suitable players to take part in a multiplayer game session.
2. The manufacture of matches for kindling or burning.
3. present participle and gerund of matchmake
4. An attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage.

Example Sentences

Patty, your timing is excellent. There's Claude over there. Want me to do some matchmaking?

... there was evidence that they did provide information for day care matchmaking to the potential users and givers of care.

I planned the match from that hour; and when such success has blessed me in this instance, dear papa, you cannot think that I shall leave off match-making.

The marriage was highly approved of by Mrs. Shelby, who, with a little womanly complacency in match-making, felt pleased to unite her handsome favorite with one of her own class who seemed in every way suited to her;

Word Forms

• matchmakings
• match-making

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