match against
phrasal verbmatch something against something
- to compare something with something else in order to find things that are the same or similar
- New information is matched against existing data in the computer.
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match somebody/something against/with somebody/something
- to arrange for somebody to compete in a game or competition against somebody else
- We are matched against last year's champions in the first round.