[usuallybeforenoun] used temporarily for a particular purpose because the real thing is not available:
A few cushions formed a makeshift bed. * The hall had been turned into a makeshift hospital.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for makeshift is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is makeshift a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, makeshift is tagged as adjective.
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