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Definition of Make good
1. Verb. Act as promised. "Make good on promises"
Definition of Make good
1. Verb. (rare) To achieve substantial success in life, often in business. ¹
2. Verb. (sense often with "on") To complete successfully. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Make Good
Literary usage of Make good
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1911)
"indeed, in a great big general sense, just to make good everywhere and all the
... It merely means that no one can make good unless he puts himself into the ..."
2. Junius: Including Letters by the Same Writer, Under Other Signatures, (now by Junius, John Mason Good (1812)
"JUNIUS engages to make good his charge against Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, some
time before the meeting of parliament, in order that the House of Commons ..."
3. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"... and would no doubt make a itout Rand in defence of their own country ; but
out of it, according to the report of the bed officer«, they do not make good ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"... them a great deal of trouble with their customers; it having been necessary
to make good a great many shoes returned on account of serious defects. ..."
5. A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity: With Notes by Frederick Thomas White, Owen Davies Tudor, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1877)
"But if the estate was vested, notwithstanding such declaration of uses, yet the
recovery has always been held to make good such defeasible estate; ..."
6. Company Precedents, for Use in Relation to Companies Subject to the by Francis Beaufort Palmer (1881)
"Finch is separately and also jointly with the other defts. liable to make good
and repay to the said co. the said sum of 2000/., and that deft. ..."
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