matchmaking

plural matchmakings · alternative match-making

1. countableuncountableAn attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage.

   Patty, your timing is excellent. There's Claude over there. Want me to do some matchmaking?

   2001: The Gilmore Girls (TV, episode 1.18)

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   The marriage was highly approved of by Mrs. Shelby, who, with a little womanly complacency in match-making, felt pleased to unite her handsome favorite with one of her own class who seemed in every way suited to her;

   1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

   I planned the match from that hour; and when such success has blessed me in this instance, dear papa, you cannot think that I shall leave off match-making.

   1815, Jane Austen, Emma

2. countableuncountablebusinessA service aiming to bring together sellers and buyers or potential partners.

   ... there was evidence that they did provide information for day care matchmaking to the potential users and givers of care.

   1971, Eunice L. Watson, Arthur Cope Emlem, Matchmaking in Neighborhood Day Care: A Descriptive Study of the Day Care Neighbor Service

3. countableuncountablevideo gamesThe act or process of locating suitable players to take part in a multiplayer game session.

   It turns out, however, that there wasn't actually anything different going on behind the matchmaking scenes, because Bungie forgot to turn skill-based matchmaking on. I believe the kids call this "getting caught in 4K."

   2022 August 25, Alyssa Mercante, “Destiny 2 streamers complain about new PvP matchmaking, but Bungie says it didn't change anything”, in GamesRadar

4. countableuncountableThe manufacture of matches for kindling or burning.

alternative match-making

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of matchmake