make one's number

verb

To report one's arrival and begin one's duties.

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Meanings

verbmake one's number (third-person singular simple present makes one's number, present participle making one's number, simple past and past participle made one's number)

present singular third person makes one's number · participle present making one's number · participle past made one's number · past made one's number

  1. governmentTo report one's arrival and begin one's duties.

    Dave Shaw had given me good advice. 'Make your number with the purser,' he had said. 'He's a kind of super marine hotel manager who can wave a magic wand and get you almost anything you ask for.'

    1972, Stephen Seamus Kerry, Ship's Doctor, page 49
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