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makeshift

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1. makeshift - Noun

2. makeshift - Adjective

3. makeshift - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error. Ludwig von Mises

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence. Ma Jian

My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night. Sam Abell

It is a double-edged makeshift to entrust an individual or a group of individuals with the authority to resort to violence. Ludwig von Mises

I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines. King Krule

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. Joseph Barbera

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