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  • noun Someone who seeks a romantic partner for another.

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Examples

  • What follows is a chronicle of romance, captured through the camera lens and told by the match-maker.

    Love Connection: The Turkey and the Decoy 2009

  • But, suggests Brown, the match-maker can't force matches: "Nothing happens unless it makes sense for everybody involved."

    Early season provides flexibility for college football teams, ESPN 2009

  • ALICE HEMINGWAY, A society woman, good-hearted, and a match-maker.

    A WICKED WOMAN (A CURTAIN RAISER) 2010

  • On August 4, 1960, Akemi Okubo and I got married in a traditional way, arranged by a match-maker.

    Osamu Shimomura - Autobiography 2009

  • A boxing match-maker sent a message to his Facebook page on a Monday, asking the 35-year-old boxer if he could fight that coming weekend.

    Training for a Heavyweight Bout? Better Take a Geography Lesson Russell Adams 2011

  • I especially enjoyed the Jewish mother and grandmother in the film, who, having grown frustrated at the daughter's turning down so many men brought by the match-maker, reached over and grabbed each other's hands and lifted their anxious faces to Heaven to thank God for his mercy, when the daughter finally approved of one of the candidates.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • I especially enjoyed the Jewish mother and grandmother in the film, who, having grown frustrated at the daughter's turning down so many men brought by the match-maker, reached over and grabbed each other's hands and lifted their anxious faces to Heaven to thank God for his mercy, when the daughter finally approved of one of the candidates.

    Arranged 2008

  • Even if you hired an old-fashioned match-maker, it would be impossible to identify and match the infinite ingredients that add up to compatibility.

    Enough Already Peter Walsh 2009

  • Harry, feeling lonely and in serious need of a little female companionship visits the 'Endangered Species Dating Agency' where he is offered a choice between a hippo "opposites do attract you know" or a frigid panda, although the flirty match-maker quite fancies the handsome bear for herself.

    Sophie Keller: Bob and Harry, The Last Two Polar Bears: A Short Film For SOS Live Earth 2008

  • Because we have free choice, we will choose the agent/buyer/seller which offers the highest value in return for what we sell be it the collectible or the job as a match-maker.

    Stephen Cheung on the new "labour laws" Sun Bin 2008

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