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match | Business English

match
verb
uk /mætʃ/us
[ T ]
to be equal to another person or thing in quality, amount, or level:
Few people can match his combination of skills.
Results this year may not match last year's.
I'm looking for a job that matches my qualifications and ambitions.
[ I or T ]
to be the same as something else, or to be the same as each other:
The program automatically finds websites and news stories that match your interests.
His actions and his words did not match.
[ T ]
to find something that is the same as something else, or goes well with it:
match sth against sthBring a sample of the colour you want to our store, and we will match it against one of our paint colours.
match sth/sb to sthWe can help you match the person to the job.
[ T ]
to give or offer the same amount of money as has been given, collected, or offered by someone else:
It's hard for small stores to match supermarket prices.
The charity will receive federal money to match the first $250 of each contribution.
match
noun
uk /mætʃ/us
[ C ]
something that is the same as something else:
I searched for his name in the database but got the message "No match".
find/make a matchDetectives found a match with samples taken from the crime scene.
I compared the two signatures, and they were an exact match.
[ S ]
a person or thing that is equal to another person or thing in quality or power:
a match for sb/sthThe newspaper's new head is certainly a match for the previous editor.
 be no match for sth/sb
to be less powerful or effective than someone or something else:
Their computer firewall was no match for the hackers.

Examples of match

match
The first argument of the tuple matches the category of the first daughter of the indexed rules.
The resulting phrase is then added to the list of contexts, together with the matched word and the path that led to the context.
Such a sequent is not an axiom unless a formula in that matches the facts in exists.
When we find that a signature matches a set of words, we analyze the words into stem and affix with that signature.
The evaluation scheme provided a scoring method for exact matches to fine-grained senses as well as one for partial matches at a more coarse-grained level.
A simple nine-way gate ensured that the routing for the sensor was matched with the correct scaling required for that control function.
In contrast, only 3 of the 649 children in the other language groups matched this figure.
Phonemes in words should always benefit from the presence of matching lexical representations.
The asset manager and asset-managed samples were independent and not matched.
Therefore, on this matched task, accent discriminated between the speech-disordered group and the control group.
The three main aspects that characterize a pattern matching technique are pattern classes, degree of similarity, and matching methods.
The input given by the designer should be represented in such a way that these searching and matching processes can be carried out.
The main drawback of the first-generation systems is the restricted view of the direct list matching inferences.
The positions are represented after pattern recognition by matching experimental parabolas to the theoretical ones.
The weakness of their approach is that sophistication of the social theory is not matched by an equivalent theorisation of the music.
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Collocations withmatch

match

These are words often used in combination with match.

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away match
I suggest that no one should be permitted to travel by means of group travel to the away match unless he is a ticket holder.
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