make one's number

verb

make one's number

verb

1

Government, Military, Naval, Navy, Politics, War To report one's arrival and begin one's duties.

Dave Shaw had given me good advice. 'Make your number with the purser,' he had said. 'He's a kind of super marine hotel manager who can wave a magic wand and get you almost anything you ask for.'1972, Stephen Seamus Kerry, Ship's Doctor, page 49:

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