Usually means: Cosmetics to enhance or alter appearance.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. makeup: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. makeup: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. makeup: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. makeup: Vocabulary.com
  5. Makeup, makeup: Wordnik
  6. makeup: Wiktionary
  7. makeup: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. makeup: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. makeup: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. makeup: Dictionary.com
  11. makeup: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Makeup: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. makeup: Rhymezone
  14. makeup: Free Dictionary
  15. makeup: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. makeup: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  17. makeup: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. makeup: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. makeup: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Makeup: Body Art
  3. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. makeup: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. makeup: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, uncountable) An item's composition.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance.
noun:  (manufacturing) Replacement; material used to make up for the amount that has been used up.
noun:  (education) A test given to students allowing them to repeat failed material.
noun:  (finance) In a NIMCRUT, an amount distributed from the trust's income in subsequent years to make up for a present shortfall.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To put makeup on (someone or something).

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