make way

Idioms  

1. Allow room for passage, move aside, as in Please make way for the wheelchair . This expression was first recorded about 1200.

2. Also, make way for . Leave room for a successor or substitute, as in It's time he retired and made way for some younger professor . [Mid-1700s]

3. Progress, advance, as in Is this enterprise making way? [Late 1500s] For a synonym, see make headway .

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Example Sentences

In a bid to make way for the 18,000-square-foot mansion, Wasserman also purchased the property next door, which once belonged to music legend Frank Sinatra.

From MarketWatch

The AOL campus has largely been razed, in part to make way for the new digital economy.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I usually make way more than I need, so then I’ll turn it into a soup afterwards. They’re pretty forgiving in a soup.”

From Salon

The East Wing of the White House was demolished last autumn to make way for the ballroom.

From BBC

The Chagossians were forcibly removed by the British and Americans in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for the joint U.S. military base.

From The Wall Street Journal

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