Usually means: Reaches full development or age.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. matures: Merriam-Webster
  2. matures: Collins English Dictionary
  3. matures: Vocabulary.com
  4. Matures, matures: Wordnik
  5. matures: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. matures: Wiktionary
  7. matures: Dictionary.com
  8. matures: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. matures: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. matures: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. matures: Legal dictionary
  3. matures: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. matures: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. matures: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. matures: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. matures: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mature as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mature)

adjective:  Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
adjective:  Brought to a state of complete readiness.
adjective:  Profound; careful.
adjective:  (medicine, obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
adjective:  (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
verb:  (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
verb:  (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
verb:  (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
verb:  (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
verb:  (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
verb:  (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
verb:  (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.
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