English-Portuguese translations for makeshift

• improvisado
  Não se atrevem a sair dos seus acampamentos improvisados. They do not dare to leave their makeshift encampments.
  Dezenas de milhar de pessoas viram-se obrigadas a refugiar-se nos ginásios ou em alojamentos improvisados. Tens of thousands have been forced to shelter in gymnasiums or other makeshift accommodation.
  Presentemente, a preocupação prioritária são as cerca de 10 000 a 30 000 pessoas que estão a viver em acampamentos improvisados em zonas ameaçadas pelas cheias. Today, the priority concern are some 10 000 to 30 000 people living in makeshift camps in flood-prone areas.
• improviso

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