make-up
noun [S]Definition
› the different people who together form a group, or the different things that something consists of: Changes in age discrimination legislation have affected both the make-up of the workforce and business in general. The rating system is based on complex algorithms that analyse the nutritional make-up of a food item and then assign it a score.
(Definition of make-up noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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