makeshift
عارضی
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
So gone are the days when cruise travelers had to made do with 'makeshift' facilities.
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.
The looters are using 'makeshift' boats made of pieces of styrofoam to access.
Today, the home is also falling into disrepair, with junk and 'makeshift' sheds littering the massive garden.
On the way you pass through the sprawl of 'makeshift' dwellings that are home to tens of thousands of squatters.
On this 'makeshift' stage women showed you their chuffs for a quid.
Victoria laid the fragile child in her arms on the hard wooden bench they used as a 'makeshift' bed.
We stayed there in the mountains eating what we could find, while living in 'makeshift' shelters.
All over town, he says, kids would be hitting golf balls, sometimes with 'makeshift' clubs.
All political parties are bound by their own ideological limits and do not want to make any 'makeshift' of it.
Taylor endured primitive living conditions and long marches between an endless series of 'makeshift' camps.
Perhaps a few stone-aged Ciboney reached the island on 'makeshift' rafts of floating logs.
Men used their Afghan shawls as 'makeshift' ropes to scale the stadium's walls.
it was only a 'makeshift' camp
About 109,000 people are living in 'makeshift' shelters made from blue and white plastic sheeting.
Sometimes the hostels are full and homeless women are given 'makeshift' beds, she said.
The children looked at her dully as they used the legs of the gates as 'makeshift' soccer goals.
They were unloading RPG launchers and reinforcing a series of 'makeshift' bunkers on Thursday.
So 'makeshift' solutions were invented, revived and refined to get back a certain air of balance.
Several of the pairs had to do push-ups on 'makeshift' courts for losing points.
I sat on the end of his 'makeshift' bed and we talked about his life, family, and fishing.
The reason why we put up with all these 'makeshifts' is because we are so poor that we cannot help it.
Sportsmen's Hall, it turned out, was much less grand than its name implied: all 'makeshifts' and mazes, narrow passages harbored by rude planks.
This book represents the single most significant attempt in print to supply the English ‘economy of 'makeshifts' ’ with a solid, empirical basis.
Others recounted tales of the privations caused by the blockade and the 'makeshifts' necessitated by them.
Such 'makeshifts' were not uncommon among late-romantics.
These hard-won, fond, wearisome, and implacable wives were, after all, just temporary 'makeshifts' .
The livelihood of most peasant families was an amalgam of 'makeshifts' .
Great conflicts of ideas must be solved by straight and frank methods; they cannot be solved by artifices and 'makeshifts' .
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