make shift
Alternative form of makeshift.
Adjective
- Alternative form of makeshift.
- Bill saw the road as an advantage for him, but he still didn't like the fact that he was seeing more and more make shift camps preparing to build permanent homes for the settling, unwanted new comers. - 2010, William...
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Noun
- Alternative form of makeshift.
- In a room not more than twelve feet square, were four miserable beds: the make shift, as mine host of the tape shop called it, was a singular contrivance; it was a long deal table, with a broomstick tied to each corner,...
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Verb
- To contrive; to invent a way of surmounting a difficulty.
- Nerissa: How like you the young German, the Duke of Saxony's nephew? Portia: Very vilely in the morning, when he is sober, and most vilely in the afternoon, when he is drunk: when he is best, he is a little worse than a...
- Ecod, I thank your worship, I'll make a shift to stay my stomach with a slice of cold beef in the pantry. - 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:
- The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors...