Make Good

Definition: Make Good

Make Good

Verb

1. Act as promised; "make good on promises".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Atonement

Verb: atone, atone for; expiate; propitiate; make amends, make good; reclaim, redeem, repair, ransom, absolve, purge, shrive, do penance, stand in a white sheet, repent in sackcloth and ashes, wear a hairshirt.

Compensation

Verb: make compensation; compensate, compense; indemnify; counteract, countervail, counterpoise; balance; outbalance, overbalance, counterbalance; set off; hedge, square, give and take; make up for, lee way; cover, fill up, neutralize, nullify; equalize; make good; redeem; (atone).

Completeness

Render complete; Adjective: complete; (accomplish); fill, charge, load, replenish; make up, make good; piece out, eke out; supply deficiencies; fill up, fill in, fill to the brim, fill the measure of; saturate.

Completion

Despatch, dispatch; knock off, finish off, polish off; make short work of; dispose of, set at rest; perform, discharge, fulfill, realize; put in practice, put in force; carry out, carry into effect, carry into execution; make good; be as good as one's word.

Demonstration

Verb: demonstrate, prove, establish; make good; show, evince, manifest; (be evidence of); confirm, corroborate, substantiate, verify; settle the question, reduce to demonstration, set the question at rest.

Dueness

Demand, claim; call upon for, come upon for, appeal to for; revendicate, reclaim; exact; insist on, insist upon; challenge; take one's stand, make a point of, require, lay claim to, assert, assume, arrogate, make good; substantiate; vindicate a claim, vindicate a right; fit for, qualify for; make out a case.

Escape

Verb: escape, scape; make one's escape, effect one's escape, make good one's escape; break jail; get off, get clear off, get well out of; echapper belle, save one's bacon, save one's skin; weather the storm; (safe); escape scot-free.

Evidence

Have a case, make out a case; establish, authenticate, substantiate, verify, make good, quote chapter and verse; bring home to, bring to book.

Improvement

Be better; Adjective:, be improved by; turn to right account, turn to good account, turn to best account; profit by, reap the benefit of; make good use of, make capital out of; place to good account.

Observance

Perform an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation; make good; make good one's word, make good one's promise, keep one's word, keep one's promise; redeem one's pledge; keep faith with, stand to one's engagement.

Provision

Cater, victual, provision, purvey, forage; beat up for; stock, stock with; make good, replenish; fill, fill up; recruit, feed.

Restoration

Make whole, redintegrate; recoup; make good, make all square; rectify, correct; put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set straight; set up; put in order; (arrange); refit, recruit; fill up, fill up the ranks; reinforce.

Stability

Settle, establish, stablish, ascertain, fix, set, stabilitate; retain, keep hold; make good, make sure; fasten; (join); set on its legs, float; perpetuate.

Vindication

Make good; prove the truth of, prove one's case; be justified by the event.

Crosswords: Make Good

You do make good comments. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Do you make good coffee at least? (C'era una volta il West; writing credit: Dario Argento; Bernardo Bertolucci)

Some day, you'll have to make good on your innuendos. (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France)

This make good reason to you, Alison Palmer? (The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming; writing credit: Nathaniel Benchley; William Rose)

The way you make good for all the nasty tricks you pull (Crazy; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Going West to Make Good (1916)

The Fable of the Statesman Who Didn't Make Good (1915)

His Chance to Make Good (1912)

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Books

• Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great (reference)

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The doughboys make good. Credit: Library of Congress.

Transformer manufacture. Men with nimble fingers make good coil winders. These two employees of a large Eastern electrical company are producing transformers essential to war industries. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Your war savings pledge Our boys make good their pledge--Are you keeping yours? / / A.A.P. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Thirdly, In the state of nature there often wants power to back and support the sentence when right, and to give it due execution, They who by any injustice offended, will seldom fail, where they are able, by force to make good their injustice; such resistance many times makes the punishment dangerous, and frequently destructive, to those who attempt it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Workplaces can also make good rodent homes. (references)

Business

Foreign firms can make good contacts at these shows. (references)

Chinese companies have been told to make good use of the time before 2005 to develop their own capabilities. (references)

As these hospitals strategize and invest in future revenue generating operations, they may make good potential partners for foreign HCPs that want to establish a presence. (references)

Economic History

Korea

The reforms aim at increasing transparency and investor confidence, and generally purging the sector of moral hazard, that is, the assumption that government would make good all losses and not permit large companies to fail. (references)

Trade

Korea

The result was high levels of non-performing loans in the Korean banking system, due to distortions in credit allocation due to government controls; limited risk-analysis; weak prudential oversight; tightly bound societal relationships; and moral hazard arising from the widespread belief that the government would make good any and all losses. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "make good": make good a promise ♦ make good cheer ♦ make good eating ♦ make good show ♦ make good time ♦ make good weather ♦ To make good ♦ to make good weather. Additional references.

Albanian

vërtetoj (acknowledge, attest, authenticate, avouch, certify, confirm, confirm a piece of news, corroborate, demonstrate, document, doom, endorse, establish, evince, indorse, justify, make certain, prove, validate, verify), vë në vend (catch up, emplace, expiate, make up, push on, put back, reset, set), shlyej (clear, discharge, expiate, forgive, liquidate, make up, purge, redeem, satisfy, settle, Square, work off), provoj (assay, attest, demonstrate, deprive, essay, establish, experience, fit on, manifest, presume, pretend, prove, sample, savor, savour, show, substantiate, suffer, taste, test, try, try on, try out, validate, venture, witness), plotësoj (amplify, appease, complement, complete, consummate, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, flesh, fulfil, fulfill, grant, gratify, indulge, make out, make up, meet, perfect, perform, process, realize, refill, replenish, satisfy, supplement, supply). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نجح (achieve, arrive, bring off, click, flourish, get on, get through, go off well, make, make a go of it, make efficient, make out, make the grade, manage, pan, pan out, pass, prosper, pull off, pull through, succeed, thrive, triumph, win out, work it). (various references)

Bulgarian 

компенсирам (atone, compensate, countervail, indemnify, make amends, make restitution, offset, recoup, redeem, redress, repair, reward, set off), възстановявам (fix up, furbish, get better, give back, mend, re establish, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, recover, reedify, re-enact, regenerate, reinstate, renovate, repair, restore, revive, revivify). (various references)

Czech

uskuteènit (carry into effect, carry out, effect, execute, go through with, implement, realize, substantiate), prosperovat (prosper, thrive), osvìdèit se (acquit oneself well, approve, get across, prove oneself to be, turn out), napravit (correct, manipulate, put right, reclaim, redress, reform, remedy, repair, set, undo), nahradit (compensate, make up for, recompense, recover, redeem, refund, reimburse, repay, replace, retrieve, substitute, supersede, supplant, supply). (various references)

Danish

Faellesskabet skal erstatte tabet (the Community shall make good the damage), erstatte tab (to make good (any) damage), efterfølgend dækning af underskud (to make good any deficits after they have occurred). (various references)

Dutch

verlies vergoeden (to compensate for a loss, to cover a loss, to make good a loss), schade vergoeden (to make good (any) damage), rechtsvordering tot aanzuiveren van de schulden der vennootschap (action to make good a deficiency in the company's assets), innen achteraf bij tekort (to make good any deficits after they have occurred), heffen achteraf bij tekorten (to make good any deficits after they have occurred), de Gemeenschap is gehouden de schade te vergoeden (the Community shall make good the damage). (various references)

Finnish

hyvittää (compensate, credit, make amends for, make up, reimburse). (various references)

French

réussir (make a go of it, make a success, make big time, make efficient, make the grade). (various references)

German

wiedergutmachen (atone for, compensate, put right, recompense, recover, rectify, recuperate, redress, repair, reparable, retrieval, retrieve, to make up for), wettmachen (make up for, offset, recuperate, retrieval), hereinbringen (bring in, make up for, see in, take in, usher in), gutmachen (correct, put right), einstehen für (answer for, take responsibility for, vouch for), einholen (catch up, gain on, gain upon, haul down, haul in, lower, make up, obtain, overtake, overtaking, pull in, reel in, ride down, take down, wind in), ausgleichen (act as a mediator, balance, balance out, balancing, compensate, equalize, even out, fund, iron out, level off, level out, level up, make up, offset, reconcile, settle, steady, to balance, to compensate, to square), ausbügeln (iron out, to iron out). (various references)

Greek 

κάνω καλό. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"צליח (get ahead, get along, get through, make the grade, manage, prosper, pull through, succeed, swing, thrive, win, win out). (various references)

Hungarian

pótol (complement, implement, make up for, replace, to complement, to make good, to make up, to recover, to refill, to reinstate, to substitute, to supersede, to supplant, to supplement), kijavít (correct, recondition, refit, sub-edit, to correct, to make good, to mend, to piece up, to plaster up, to put right, to recondition, to refit, to repair, to revise, to set right, to set sg to rights, to set to rights, to sew up, to sub, to touch up, touch up), jóvátesz (heal, make amends, redeem, to condone, to make good, to plaster, to recompense, to redeem, to retrieve). (various references)

Indonesian

berhasil (successful). (various references)

Italian

fare bene. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

逃�'延びる (to make good one's escape), み使い (angel, be impatient, bushy, conspicuously, crunch, giant flying squirrel, incomprehensible muttering, irresistibly, itch, itchy, make good use of, make the most of, morose, munch, nausea, offended, queasy, ragged, rugged, shaggy, soy sauce, stuffy, suddenly, sullen, surge of anger, talking in sleep, to be fretful, to be in a spleen, to be in a temper, to be in ill humour, to be irritated, to be vexed, to become angry or sullen, to become serious, to blow, to feel irritated, to feel offended, to feel sick, to fret, to have the appearance of ~, to jerk off, to masturbate, to show signs of ~, to take somethingseriously, woman's desire). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

に�'のびる (to make good one's escape), む� にしない (make good use of, make the most of). (various references)

Manx

jannoo soo dy vie (jeh) (make good use of), jannoo soo dy vie (make good use of). (various references)

Pig Latin

akemay oodgay

Portuguese

dar-se bem (agree). (various references)

Romanian

se reabilita, reuşi în viaţã, repara (cobble, darn, doctor, fix, fix up, make amends for, mend, overhaul, piece, readjust, reclaim, rectify, redress, reduce, refit, renovate, repair, retrieve), reduce (abate, abridge, ax, axe, bear down, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, discount, draw in, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, narrow down, pare down, prune, recover, reduce, retrench, slacken, stint, stop, unbend, weaken), prospera (boom, do well, flourish, prosper, strike oil, thrive), plãti (defray, disburse, finance, foot, fork out, fork over, fork up, give, offset, pay, quit, remit, shell out, stand, stump up), ocupa (absorb, busy, come into, conquer, do, engage, fill, hold, indwell, occupy, take), dovedi (accomplish, argue, attest, authenticate, aver, confirm, demonstrate, educe, establish, evidence, evince, furnish evidence of, make out, manifest, overbear, prove, show, substantiate, verify, witness), a-şi îndeplini obligaţia (do one's part), înlocui (change, commute, cover, displace, do duty for, replace, shift, supersede, supplant), îndeplini (accomplish, achieve, acquit, do, execute, fill, finish, fulfil, go through, obey, perform, put through, realize, satisfy). (various references)

Russian 

возместить (compensate, make up, recompense), преуспевать (do first-rate, do well, gain ground, get along, get on, go to town, make a go of it, make headway, pan out, prosper). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uspeti (bring off, climb, come through, pan out, pull off, succeed), nadoknaditi (catch up, compensate, make it up, make up, make up for, make up to, recompense, recoup, recover, redeem, reimburse). (various references)

Spanish

triunfar (arrive, carry, carry the day, overcome, overcrow, prevail, succeed, triumph, trump, win), reparar (cavil, fix, patch up, recondition, repair, retrieve, undo), probar (assay, attempt, chance, establish, evidence, experiment, give it a try, have a bash at, like, prove, sample, sip, taste, tease, tempt, test, touch, try, try on, try out, vet), pagar (acquit, allow, bear, cheque out, clear off, defray, discharge, divvy, fee, foot, fund, get it in the neck, give, honor, honour, lash out, let in, light, meet, pay, pay away, pay back, pay for, pay out, pay over, pay up, paying, put down, repay, requite, return, settle, shell out, throw, throw back, to pay), llevar a cabo (accomplish, achieve, bring off, bring to pass, carry out, carry through, come, effect, execute, go through with, implement, prosecute, pull through, push through, put through, realize, see it through, see out, see through, top off, transact), justificar (justify, make on, make out, objectify, prove, rectify, substantiate, test, try, try on, warrant), encamburarse, cumplir la palabra (come across), cumplir (accomplish, become, carry out, comply, discharge, do, execute, fulfil, fulfill, keep, obey, observe, perform, redeem, satisfy, serve, stand by), compensar (balance, compensate, countervail, make up for, offset, pay, requite, set off). (various references)

Swedish

lyckas (click, come off, contrive, get ahead, luck out, manage, pan out, succeed), gottgöra (amends, astone, atone for, compensate, condone, indemnify, indemnity, make up, recompense, redress, retrieve, satisfy). (various references)

Turkish

yerine getirmek (accomplish, acquit oneself, answer, carry through, complete, discharge, execute, fulfil, fulfill, implement, meet, observe, perform, put in force, redeem, satisfy, serve, settle, stick to), tazmin etmek (compensate, make restitution, recoup). (various references)

Welsh

cywiro (amend, correct, perform). (various references)

adprobabit, adprobatum, redemerant, redemerit, redemi, redemimus, redemisti, redemit, redempta, redemptae, redempti, redempturus, redimam, redimat, redime, redimendi, redimendum, redimendus, redimens, redimentes, redimere, redimeret, redimerunt, redimes, redimet, redimetur, redimi, redimit, redimitur, restituam, restituamque, restituar, restituas, restituatur, restitue, restituens, restituent, restituere, restituerentur, restitueretur, restituerit, restituerunt, restitues, restituet, restituetur, restitui, restituit, restituitque, restituta, restituti, restituturum, restitutus, sarta. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: dogma, gamed, mooed, omega.

-4 letters: aged, amok, dago, dame, demo, doge, dome, doom, egad, gaed, game, goad, good, gook, kame, made, mage, make, mako, mead, mode, moke, mood, odea, ogam.

-5 letters: ado, age, ago, dag, dak, dam, doe, dog, dom, ego, gad, gae, gam, ged, gem, goa, god, goo, kae, kea, keg, koa.