make up a missed lesson; make up for a deficiency
Meanings
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to make up a missed lesson; to have a tutoring session
Typically refers to a student catching up on missed classwork or a teacher providing extra instruction.
Teacher Wang used the weekend to help students who missed class due to illness catch up.
Final exams are coming soon, I need to find time to make up the chemistry lessons I missed.
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This tutoring institution specializes in providing one-on-one make-up lesson services.
If any students didn't understand today, we can arrange a make-up session tomorrow morning.
To pass the exam, he spent the entire summer vacation taking make-up lessons.
verb
to make up for deficiencies; to redo imperfect work
Used metaphorically to describe correcting mistakes or improving inadequate performance in any task, not just academics.
The last project report had many errors; we need to make it up to the client and resubmit a new one.
His understanding of market rules was insufficient; this failure served as a lesson for him.
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The safety training wasn't done well; they only thought about reteaching the employees after an accident occurred.
There's a problem with product quality; the company must revisit and improve the entire production process.
This collaboration exposed weaknesses in our team's communication; we need to seriously work on improving it.