What does Makeshift mean?

Answer 1

It means a temporary substitute for something else.

For example: "We used an orange crate as a makeshift table until our moving van arrived with our furniture".

Answer 2

When this word was "born", the world was different than it is today. Today there is a name for every ailment, and accepted processes for making almost anything. It was not always that way. Most people learned by doing (some people still do) and often when people were making something, whether it be a fence or a cake, they needed something they did not have. So in the middle of the process they had to shift gears, so to speak.
They had to find something or make something that would take the place of what they were missing. They sure could not go to the internet or store to get it. The process was called a makeshift. An example of makeshift today would be to use an old tooth brush for a sneaker brush. (it's great for cleaning the soles).

Answer 3

It means to "make do" with whatever is on hand. For example, kids sometimes build a "makeshift" clubhouse in their back yard. It may simply be made of clotheslines, blankets, boxes, and rocks.

Answer 4

Something just scrapped together, put together at the last minute with pieces or parts that you had laying around instead of ones you might normally use....

Answer 5

My Thesaurus says: rough and ready, crude, temporary, improvised, provisional, do-it-yourself.

Answer 6

providing a temporary and usually inferior substitute

Answer 7

Means make the best with what you have!@~

Answer 8

a temporary expedient or substitute.

Answer 9

way of getting by

Answer 10

temporary and not necessarily in good condition.