a manufacturer (used in combination): a drugmaker; a garmentmaker.
(sometimes initial capital letter) a person who has the hobby of creating tangible physical products, especially do-it-yourself technology and engineering projects or handmade crafts (often used attributively): Makers came together at the convention to collaborate with each other and show off their completed products.The maker movement fosters hands-on creativity in a sedentary world of passive entertainment options.
(initial capital letter) God.
the party executing a legal instrument, especially a promissory note.
Cards. the player who first names the successful bid.
Archaic. a poet.
Idioms for maker
go to / meet one's Maker, to die.
Origin of maker
First recorded 1300–50; Middle English; see origin at make1, -er1
OTHER WORDS FROM maker
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Words nearby maker
make-or-break, make out, make out like a bandit, makeover, make-peace, maker, make-ready, make rounds, maker's mark, makerspace, make sail
The front-facing camera has been a pretty constant bugbear for phone makers for a number of years now.
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After a delay of six months for its 7-nanometer chips, it’s now a year behind schedule and lagging other makers who already offer 7-nanometer chips.
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Very few academics or policy makers are talking about the impact of climate change on heritage.
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Approximately 60% of craft spirits makers sell less than 2,500 cases per year.
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He made news as the one of the first and most public critics of the suppressed dangers of the painkiller, Vioxx, which its maker Merck withdrew from the market in 2004.
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But Lundbeck, the Danish maker of Nembutal, no longer sells the drug to U.S. prisons.