Verb
patch together (third-person singular simple present patches together, present participle patching together, simple past and past participle patched together)
To repair (something), especially in an improvised manner or with insufficient equipment.
Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one. Andrew Tobias
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory. Dan Chaon
As the pandemic drags on into month seven, many families are still struggling to patch together child care to help cover the basics, never mind slotting in time for parental self-care. Source: Internet
The criticism comes amid efforts by the South Korean government to patch together broken down relations with the North. Source: Internet