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make shifts

make shifts is the plural of make shift.

Meaning of make shift

Verb

make shift (third-person singular simple present makes shift, present participle making shift, simple past and past participle made shift)

  1. (dated, transitive) 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 man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. And the worst fall...c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Questions about make shifts

What is make shifts the plural of?
Make shifts is the plural of make shift.

Words near make shifts in the dictionary

  1. make room
  2. make sail
  3. make semblant
  4. make sense
  5. make shift
  6. make shifts
  7. make ship
  8. make shit of
  9. make shit shake
  10. make short work of
  11. make since

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