Idiom
make room
Meaning
To rearrange or organize existing people, objects, furniture, belongings, etc., to create space for new objects.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Please make room for my bag on the table.”
“We need to clear out the old boxes in the attic to make room for the new baby furniture.”
“The librarian rearranged the dusty shelves to make room for the extensive collection of historical manuscripts arriving from the university archives.”
Examples
simple
“Please make room for my bag on the table.”
contextual
“We need to clear out the old boxes in the attic to make room for the new baby furniture.”
complex
“The librarian rearranged the dusty shelves to make room for the extensive collection of historical manuscripts arriving from the university archives.”
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