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Adjective(1) done or made using whatever is available(2) temporary
Noun(1) something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency(2) temporary help

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(1) Carers often find their own solutions from locked doors to makeshift alarms to constant surveillance.(2) About 109,000 people are living in makeshift shelters made from blue and white plastic sheeting.(3) We stayed there in the mountains eating what we could find, while living in makeshift shelters.(4) The children looked at her dully as they used the legs of the gates as makeshift soccer goals.(5) Taylor endured primitive living conditions and long marches between an endless series of makeshift camps.(6) Sometimes the hostels are full and homeless women are given makeshift beds, she said.(7) So gone are the days when cruise travelers had to made do with makeshift facilities.(8) So makeshift solutions were invented, revived and refined to get back a certain air of balance.(9) Several of the pairs had to do push-ups on makeshift courts for losing points.(10) Today, the home is also falling into disrepair, with junk and makeshift sheds littering the massive garden.(11) Victoria laid the fragile child in her arms on the hard wooden bench they used as a makeshift bed.(12) The looters are using makeshift boats made of pieces of styrofoam to access.(13) On the way you pass through the sprawl of makeshift dwellings that are home to tens of thousands of squatters.(14) Dark Days charts several years in the lives of the homeless who live in makeshift shacks in the New York underground system.(15) Perhaps a few stone-aged Ciboney reached the island on makeshift rafts of floating logs.(16) I sat on the end of his makeshift bed and we talked about his life, family, and fishing.
Related Words
(1) make shift
Synonyms
Adjective
1. temporary
2. provisional
3. interim
4. stopgap
5. make-do
6. standby
7. rough and ready
9. ad hoc
10. extempore
11. jury-rigged
12. jerry-built
13. thrown together
14. cobbled together


Noun
15. make-do
16. stopgap


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