Adjective makeshift has 1 sense
  1. improvised, jury-rigged, makeshift - done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer"
    Antonyms: permanent, lasting (indirect, via impermanent)
,Noun makeshift has 1 sense
  1. makeshift, stopgap - something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
    --1 is a kind of expedient
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