Usually means: Initiate action to achieve goal.
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  1. make a move: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. make a move: Merriam-Webster
  3. make a move: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. make a move: Collins English Dictionary
  5. make a move: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. make a move: Wiktionary
  7. make a move: Dictionary.com
  8. Make A Move (Icon for Hire song), Make a Move (Icon for Hire song), Make a Move (Incubus song), Make a Move (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. make a move: Idioms

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  1. make a move: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (make a move)

verb:  (idiomatic) To take action.
verb:  (idiomatic, chiefly UK and India) To depart from a place; to set off.
verb:  (idiomatic, often followed by on) To initiate a conversation or perform an action intended to engage the willing attention of a person in whom one has a romantic or sexual interest; to approach someone of romantic or sexual appeal in hopes of escalating to a romantic or sexual encounter or relationship.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, move.

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