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makeshift::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | improvised, jury-rigged |
the rock served as a makeshift hammer.
Examples of makeshift
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The makeshift barber shop is located in a tent city on Haiti's only golf course.
From the sacbee.com
Deeper into the city, the revolution's volunteers threw up makeshift barricades.
From the guardian.co.uk
He buries the dead in a makeshift cemetery on a hill near his village of Sidero.
From the time.com
Music drifts from a 1970s Impala parked at a makeshift, bucket-and-rag car wash.
From the courier-journal.com
Hall later agreed to show investigators where he had hidden the makeshift knife.
From the news-journalonline.com
During this $3 million revamp, parishioners are gathering in makeshift churches.
From the sacbee.com
Brother and sister slept in the living room with a makeshift wall dividing them.
From the abcnews.go.com
They use tractors, boats and makeshift barges to navigate the main thoroughfare.
From the cnn.com
A makeshift tent city was set up on a sports field on the outskirts of L'Aquila.
From the foxnews.com
- Improvised: done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer"
- Something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
- The Japanese animation television series Death Note, is based on the manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. ...
- Mini-Cons are a human-sized race and faction of power-enhancing transforming robots in the universe and its sequels, one of the assorted universes in Transformers fiction. ...
- A temporary, usually insubstantial, substitution for something else; Made to work or suffice; improvised; substituted
- Refers to a temporary solution; a solution that "will do" for a while
