makeshift
ਨਾਟਕ
definition
noun
We're looking at a matchup between makeshifts on Saturday.
a temporary substitute or device.
adjective
arranging a row of chairs to form a makeshift bed
serving as a temporary substitute; sufficient for the time being.
example
We stayed there in the mountains eating what we could find, while living in 'makeshift' shelters.
On the way you pass through the sprawl of 'makeshift' dwellings that are home to tens of thousands of squatters.
Taylor endured primitive living conditions and long marches between an endless series of 'makeshift' camps.
The looters are using 'makeshift' boats made of pieces of styrofoam to access.
All over town, he says, kids would be hitting golf balls, sometimes with 'makeshift' clubs.
The children looked at her dully as they used the legs of the gates as 'makeshift' soccer goals.
Dark Days charts several years in the lives of the homeless who live in 'makeshift' shacks in the New York underground system.
Carers often find their own solutions from locked doors to 'makeshift' alarms to constant surveillance.
All political parties are bound by their own ideological limits and do not want to make any 'makeshift' of it.
So gone are the days when cruise travelers had to made do with 'makeshift' facilities.
Several of the pairs had to do push-ups on 'makeshift' courts for losing points.
Men used their Afghan shawls as 'makeshift' ropes to scale the stadium's walls.
Perhaps a few stone-aged Ciboney reached the island on 'makeshift' rafts of floating logs.
Victoria laid the fragile child in her arms on the hard wooden bench they used as a 'makeshift' bed.
it was only a 'makeshift' camp
On this 'makeshift' stage women showed you their chuffs for a quid.
About 109,000 people are living in 'makeshift' shelters made from blue and white plastic sheeting.
They were unloading RPG launchers and reinforcing a series of 'makeshift' bunkers on Thursday.
I sat on the end of his 'makeshift' bed and we talked about his life, family, and fishing.
Sometimes the hostels are full and homeless women are given 'makeshift' beds, she said.
So 'makeshift' solutions were invented, revived and refined to get back a certain air of balance.
Today, the home is also falling into disrepair, with junk and 'makeshift' sheds littering the massive garden.
The reason why we put up with all these 'makeshifts' is because we are so poor that we cannot help it.
Others recounted tales of the privations caused by the blockade and the 'makeshifts' necessitated by them.
Sportsmen's Hall, it turned out, was much less grand than its name implied: all 'makeshifts' and mazes, narrow passages harbored by rude planks.
These hard-won, fond, wearisome, and implacable wives were, after all, just temporary 'makeshifts' .
Great conflicts of ideas must be solved by straight and frank methods; they cannot be solved by artifices and 'makeshifts' .
This book represents the single most significant attempt in print to supply the English ‘economy of 'makeshifts' ’ with a solid, empirical basis.
Lambert clearly explains the ways in which solutions and 'makeshifts' were developed to answer, in the time available, the problems that the Royal Navy faced.
May you once more take your stand on the side of Eternal Truth and not the 'makeshifts' that pass for truth, today.
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