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Also known as match making

thumb|350px|Gerard van Honthorst, The Match-Maker (1625)

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thumb|350px|Gerard van Honthorst, The Match-Maker (1625)

Matchmaking is the process of pairing two or more people together, usually for the purpose of marriage, in which case the intermediary or matchmaker is also known as a marriage broker. Matchmaking may be done as a profession for a fee or it may be done by clergy.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “matchmaking” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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