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makeshifts

makeshifts is the plural of makeshift.

Meaning of makeshift

Noun (1)

makeshift (plural makeshifts)

  1. A temporary (usually insubstantial) substitution.
    • And I am not a model clergyman—only a decent makeshift.1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XVII, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II, page 316

Noun (2)

makeshift (plural makeshifts)

  1. (obsolete) A rogue; a shifty person.
    • Greene the coneycatcher, of this dream the author, / For his dainty devise deserveth the halter. / A rakehell, a makeshift, a scribbling fool; / A famous bayard in city and school: / Now sick as a dog, and ever brain-sick, / Where such a raving and desperate Dick?1592, Gabriel Harvey, “The First Letter”, in Four Letters and Certain Sonnets, new edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, published 1814, A Due Commendation of the Quipping Author...

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Questions about makeshifts

What is makeshifts the plural of?
Makeshifts is the plural of makeshift.

Words near makeshifts in the dictionary

  1. makes wudu
  2. makes you think
  3. makeshift
  4. makeshiftiness
  5. makeshiftness
  6. makeshifts
  7. makeshifty
  8. makespan
  9. makespans
  10. makest
  11. makestrife

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