make room

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make room (third-person singular simple present makes room, present participle making room, simple past and past participle made room)

1. (idiomatic) To rearrange or organize existing people, objects, furniture, belongings, etc., to create space for new objects.
   • 1949 May and June, “A Middlesex Inn Sign”, in Railway Magazine, page 142:

     This tunnel was 326 yd. long, and the portals were designed by Brunel to represent Norman archways. It was converted into an open cutting, between 1887 and 1889, to make room for the shunting necks of the sidings at Bristol East Depot.