making

 
Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪkɪŋ/

noun

  • 1 [mass noun] the process of making or producing something: the making of videos [in combination]: decision-making
  • 2 (makings) the essential qualities needed for something: she had the makings of a great teacher
  • (makings) North American & Australian/NZ informal paper and tobacco for rolling a cigarette: he reached for his tobacco tin and makings
  • 3 (makings) informal, dated earnings or profit.

Phrases

be the making of someone

ensure someone’s success or favourable development: this place has been the making of me in many ways

in the making

in the process of developing or being made: a campaign that’s been two years in the making

of one's (own) making

(of a difficulty) caused by oneself: he faces a dilemma substantially of his own making