Usually means: Cosmetics to enhance or alter appearance.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. make-up: Merriam-Webster
  2. make-up, make-up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. make-up: Vocabulary.com
  4. Make-Up, Make-up, make-up: Wordnik
  5. make-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. make-up: Wiktionary
  7. Make-up, make-up: Dictionary.com
  8. make-up: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. MAKE-UP, Make-up, The Make-Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Make-up: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. make-up: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. make-up: Rhymezone
  13. make-up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. make-up: FreeDictionary.org
  15. make-up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. make-up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Make-up: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. Make-up: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. make-up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. make-up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Made-up, false, imaginary, fabricated.
adjective:  (informal) Of or relating to a reconciliation.
noun:  Alternative spelling of makeup. See usage notes there. [(countable, uncountable) An item's composition.]

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