| crisis intervention | psychotherapy that focuses on acute critical situations (depressive episodes or attempted suicides or drug overdoses) with the aim of restoring the person to the level of functioning before the crisis |
a mischief
mischief-making
mischievousness
deviltry devilry devilment
rascality
roguery
roguishness
shenanigan ddd | reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others |
sexual love
lovemaking
making love
love
love life | sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people, his lovemaking disgusted her, he hadn't had any love in months, he has a very complicated love life |
lace making
tatting | the act or art of making handmade lace |
devising
fashioning
making | the act that results in something coming to be, the devising of plans, the fashioning of pots and pans, the making of measurements, it was already in the making |
moviemaking
movie making
film making | the production of movies |
winemaking
wine making | the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine |
slave-making ant
slave-maker | an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants |
| making | (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something, the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake |
qualification
making | an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something, her qualifications for the job are excellent, one of the qualifications for admission is an academic degree, she has the makings of fine musician |
decision making
deciding | the cognitive process of reaching a decision, a good executive must be good at decision making |
informing
making known | a speech act that conveys information |
| crisis | a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something, after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better |
leak
wetting
making water
passing water | a euphemism for urination, he had to take a leak |
photomechanics
photoplate making | the process whereby printing surfaces (plates or cylinders) are produced by photographic methods, photomechanics revolutionized the practice of printing |
| crisis | an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty, they went bankrupt during the economic crisis |
| identity crisis | distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about one's self and one's role in society |
credit crunch
liquidity crisis
squeeze | a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high |
depression slump
economic crisis | a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment |
nonprofit
non-profit-making | not commercially motivated |
| policy-making | concerned with policy, not administration |
epochal
epoch-making | highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era, epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill, an epoch-making discovery |