make one's number
English
Verb
make one's number (third-person singular simple present makes one's number, present participle making one's number, simple past and past participle made one's number)
- (naval) To report one's arrival and begin one's duties.
- 1972, Stephen Seamus Kerry, Ship's Doctor (page 49)
- 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)