Definition of makeshift
: a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute
- A large box served as a makeshift table.
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Examples of makeshift in a Sentence
when his belt broke, he was forced to use string as a makeshift
Recent Examples of makeshift from the Web
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A few dozen revelers were packed into the makeshift stadium seats that had been assembled upon slabs of grass, which were affixed to the plaza’s rink, circled by a Zamboni and a school of skaters.
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Stephen Upman, a Charlottesville police spokesman, said the disorderly conduct charge is related to the makeshift flamethrower and the assault and battery charge is related to a separate skirmish during the rally.
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But demand quickly caused the in-school business to expand, and students ended up creating a makeshift kitchen in a closet.
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Last year, military attacks set off by the killings of nine police officers at border posts prompted tens of thousands of Rohingya to flee into Bangladesh, and four new makeshift settlements formed.
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Angered by the arrest, supporters of the opposition in several cities built makeshift barricades and started small fires in the city centers.
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In the outskirts of Rome, at a makeshift camp that is home to hundreds of migrants and refugees, volunteer Adelaide Massimi reflects on the mood shift in Italian society regarding the migration issue.
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The deckhand in the bow sat placidly, watching for the 20-foot-high breaking surf, his feet soaking in the makeshift livewell ahead of the first bench seat, a couple dozen mullet cruising around his ankles.
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Matthew Helms, who worked as a medic the night of the shooting, visits a makeshift memorial for the victims of Sunday night's mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
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First Known Use of makeshift
1766
Synonym Discussion of makeshift
resource, resort, expedient, shift, makeshift, stopgap mean something one turns to in the absence of the usual means or source of supply. resource and resort apply to anything one falls back upon.
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- exhausted all of their resources
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- a last resort
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- a flimsy expedient
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- desperate shifts to stave off foreclosure
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- old equipment employed as a makeshift
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- a new law intended only as a stopgap
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