used temporarily for a particular purpose because the real thing is not available synonym provisional, improvised临时替代的;权宜的 A few cushions formed a makeshift bed. 临时用几个垫子拼了一张床。 The hall had been turned into a makeshift hospital. 大厅已经变成了一个临时医院。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMakeshift is used with these nouns:- altar
- bandage
- barricade
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