Makeshift
['meɪkʃɪft] or ['mek'ʃɪft]
Definition
(noun.) something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency.
Editor: Susanna--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
Editor: Robert
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Substitute, temporary, expedient.
Typed by Denis
Examples
- In the world around us we see makeshift devices at work in all those branches, ill co-ordinated one with another and unsatisfactory in themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And I am not a model clergyman--only a decent makeshift. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I think what you call the makeshift contrivances at dear Helstone were a charming part of the life there. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Typist: Vilma