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 Translation for 'to make up for sth' from English to Ukrainian
компенсувати щось [док./недок.]to make up for sth.
Partial Matches
помиритися [док.]to make up
театр
маска {ж}
make-up
миритися [недок.]to make up [to become reconciled]
рішитися [док.]to make up one's mind
переконатися в чомусь [док.]to make sure of sth.
зіпсувати щось [док.]to make a mess of sth.
просити про щось [недок.]to ask for sth.
крім чогосьexcept (for) sth.
домагатися чогось [недок.]to aim for sth.
просити про що [недок.]to ask for sth.
влаштовувати щось [недок.]to set sth. up
визбирувати щосьto gather sth. up
оживити щось [док.]to liven sth. up
підсумувати щось [док.]to sum sth. up
підсумувати щось [док.]to add sth. up
відстоювати щось [недок.]to take a stand for sth. [idiom]
виріб {ч}make
просунутися [док.]to make headway
просунутися [док.]to make progress
просуватися [недок.]to make way
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Usage Examples English
  • The two governments have attempted to make up for lost time and are eager to complete CEPA negotiations by 2013 and ensure its ratification by 2014.
  • Unified German public spending has had to pour more than $2 trillion into the former East Germany, to make up for the region's neglect and malaise and bring it up to a minimal standard.
  • The increase in building activity has led to a shortage of construction workers. To make up for the deficit, young people are being sent to learn the trade in Turkey.
  • Most of the other Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms (but not the axiom of extensionality, the axiom of regularity, or the axiom of choice) then became necessary to make up for some of what was lost by changing the axiom schema of comprehension to the axiom schema of specification – each of these axioms states that a certain set exists, and defines that set by giving a predicate for its members to satisfy, i.e.
  • A 2017 study conducted by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) concluded that due to the deterioration of government and the economy "the government encourages corruption to make up for its inability to fund its own institutions" with widespread and informal police roadblocks to issue fines to travellers being one manifestation of this.

  • To meet the demand, and to make up for Brownlow's diminishing interest in contributing, freelance artist Graham Dury was hired and worked alongside Chris Donald.
  • He suggests that many of the problems arise under the traditional formulation because the conscientious utilitarian ends up having to make up for the failings of others and so contributing more than their fair share.
  • The film "Kingpin" parodied "The Graduate", showing Woody Harrelson framed by his repulsive landlady's leg, and features an excerpt of "The Sound of Silence" after Harrelson's character has sex with his landlady to make up for back rent, and is so sickened by the act that he repeatedly vomits afterwards.
  • The Arab air forces were reinforced by aircraft from Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia to make up for the massive losses suffered on the first day of the war.
  • The baroness immediately claims the corpse as her beloved dog Esmé, and the guilty owner of the car gets his chauffeur to bury the animal and later sends her an emerald brooch to make up for her loss.

  • One grandson, William Stuart Baring-Gould, was a noted Sherlock Holmes scholar who wrote a fictional biography of the great detective—in which, to make up for the lack of information about Holmes's early life, he based his account on the childhood of Sabine Baring-Gould.
  • To make up for past suppression, the authorities of Norway, Sweden and Finland now make an effort to build up Sámi cultural institutions and promote Sámi culture and language.
  • QRP aficionados try to make up for this through more efficient antenna systems and enhanced operating skills.
  • "OED" currently contains over 600,000 entries. They update the OED on a quarterly basis to make up for its Third Edition revising their existing entries and adding new words and senses.
  • Acting prizes in certain years have been criticized for not recognizing superior performances so much as being awarded for personal popularity, to make up for a "snub" for a work that proved in time to be more popular or renowned than the one awarded, or presented as a "career honor" to recognize a distinguished nominee's entire body of work.

  • The waveform shapes are necessary to make up for the distance variations from the electron beam source and the screen surface.
  • Some earlier Latin poets tried to make up for this deficiency by creating new compound words, as the Greeks had done.
  • As a result, 20 percent of staff positions were eliminated, and Met director Max Hollein indicated that the Met might deaccession and sell off some of its collection to make up financial shortfalls.
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Contains inflection data from VESUM (Rysin, A., Starko, V. Large Electronic Dictionary of Ukrainian, Version 6.5.2. 2005-2024). Thank you!
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