make or break

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [meyk awr breyk]
- /meɪk ɔr breɪk/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [meyk awr breyk]
- /meɪk ɔr breɪk/

Definitions of make or break words

adjective make or break either completely successful or utterly disastrous: a make-or-break marketing policy. 1
verbal expression make or break cause success, failure 1
adjective make or break success or failure 1
noun make or break to bring success or ruin 0
adjective make or break resulting in either complete success or total failure 0
noun make or break to cause the success or failure of 0

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Origin of make or break

First appearance:

before 1915

One of the 14% newest English words

First recorded in 1915-20

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Make or break

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Make or break

make or break popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 31% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

make or break usage trend in Literature

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