English-Finnish translations for makeshift

• hätävara
  Näillä toimenpiteillä jäsenvaltiot ja Frontex voivat vähentää mahdollisimman hyvin merellä tapahtuvia katoamisia, joiden uhreina ovat Eurooppaan pyrkivät ihmiset hätävara-aluksissaan. Through these efforts, the Member States and Frontex will help to reduce, as far as possible, the disappearance at sea of those who to reach Europe in makeshift vessels.
• hätävara -
• tilapäis-

Definition of makeshift

• A temporary substitution
• Made to work or suffice; improvised; substituted
• A rogue; a shifty person

Examples

• They used the ledge and a few branches for a makeshift shelter.

Related words

• makeshift bed
• makeshift solution
• Practice makes perfect
• Practice makes perfect.
• practice makes perfect
• absence makes the heart grow fonder
• all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
• haste makes waste