The Collaborative International Dictionary
Matchmaking \Match"mak`ing\, n.
The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning.
The act or process of trying to bring about a marriage for others.
Matchmaking \Match"mak`ing\, a. Busy in making or contriving marriages; as, a matchmaking woman.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage. 2 (context business English) A service aiming to bring together sellers and buyers or potential partners. 3 (context video games English) The act or process of locating suitable players to take part in a multiplayer game session. 4 The manufacture of matches for kindling or burning. vb. (present participle of matchmake English)
Wikipedia
Matchmaking is the process of matching two or more people together, usually for the purpose of marriage, but the word is also used in the context of sporting events such as boxing, in business, in online video games and in pairing organ donors.
In multiplayer games, matchmaking is the process of connecting players together for online play sessions.
Usage examples of "matchmaking".
Her friends did occasionally try their hand at matchmaking, but she al ways left the men concerned in no doubt at all as to her feelings, so that very few of them were brave enough to risk getting a second rebuff.
As for women, Crane frankly avoided them, partly because his greatest interests in life were things in which women had neither interest or place, but mostly because he had for years been the prime target of the man-hunting debutants and the matchmaking mothers of three continents.
More than content to leave behind the ballrooms, the parties, and the myriad traps the matchmaking mamas laid for gentlemen such as he.
It impressed me most disagreeably to hear my mother forever talking of the miserableness and worthlessness of the earthly life, and of the blessedness hereafter as the only thing deserving of our attention, and at the same time observe how with unconscious motherly matchmaking and secret strategy she sought to arrange a rich marriage for her son.