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make up

To compensate, fill in or catch up.
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Cuba took limited free market-oriented measures to alleviate severe shortages of food, consumer goods, and services to make up for the ending of Soviet subsidies.

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Submitted on August 16, 2009

Additional definitions for 'make up':

make upTo constitute; to compose; to form.
make upTo assemble, or mix.
make upTo apply cosmetics or makeup.
make upTo resolve, forgive or smooth over an argument or fight.
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