makeshift in the PONS Dictionary

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Community health centers and hospitals were rendered useless, resulting in the use of makeshift wards outside the affected buildings.
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A makeshift roof was built for the stage but there was simply too much water for the festival to go on.
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Violet invents a makeshift rope to assist the orphans in descending the shaft.
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To improve its habitability a tarpaulin had been used as a makeshift roof.
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This modest provisional station, equipped with makeshift facilities, was made up of individual detached buildings and was used only for just under six years.
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The old church burned down in 1661 and was given only makeshift repairs.
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The tracks themselves are pretty makeshift, marked by old tires, flags or sticks.
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The completed section was unofficially used as a makeshift roller skating course, thanks to the wide and leveled roadbed.
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These consisted of four blocks of makeshift scaffold seating approximately 10 rows back.
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Makeshift crosses later erected on chapel grounds were removed.
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