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 Translation for 'makeshift' from English to French
ADJ   makeshift | more makeshift | most makeshift
NOUN   a makeshift | makeshifts
SYNO improvised | jury-rigged | make-do | ...
improvisé {adj}makeshift
provisoire {adj}makeshift
de fortune {adj} [provisoire]makeshift
2 Words
abri {m} de fortunemakeshift accommodation
sociol.
logement {m} provisoire
makeshift accommodation
sociol.
habitation {f} de fortune
makeshift accommodation
sociol.
hébergement {m} d'urgence
makeshift accommodation
camp {m} de fortunemakeshift camp
moyen {m} de fortunemakeshift method
abri {m} temporairemakeshift shelter
abri {m} provisoiremakeshift shelter
abri {m} de fortunemakeshift shelter
sociol.
logement {m} provisoire
makeshift shelter
sociol.
habitation {f} de fortune
makeshift shelter
sociol.
hébergement {m} d'urgence
makeshift shelter
5+ Words
méd.
improviser un hôpital
to set up a makeshift hospital
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Usage Examples English
  • In March 2022, Terminal 5 was converted into a makeshift shelter to house refugees fleeing Ukraine.
  • In the single floor makeshift office building she walks to another desk getting some files stamped.
  • The amount of injury and illness due to the tsunami overwhelmed the makeshift hospitals, leaving many victims with wounds that were untreated for several days and led to gangrene.
  • During the 1918 influenza pandemic the college suspended classes and was used as a makeshift hospital.
  • This can be done by construction of a makeshift raft or receiving outside help from the owner of a boat.

  • guns and four 12-pounder naval guns creating improvised field guns using makeshift gun carriages.
  • The garrison was well away before the United Irishmen forces entered the town, freeing prisoners such as Bagenal Harvey, setting up a Committee of Public Safety derived from the French model, and even organising a makeshift navy to protect the harbour.
  • The publications were sometimes reproduced in makeshift offices using mimeograph machines.
  • The first comparable makeshift hospital built during Russia's outbreak was built at Golokhvastovo in suburban Moscow in March 2020.
  • In April 2019, Forest department of Bangladesh Government filed a case against GPH Ispat Limited for constructing a makeshift dam on the stream of a reserve forest in Sitakunda to secure water supply for its new factory.

  • He died of stomach cancer at the makeshift Rangoon Public Hospital in January or February 1943.
  • Exit 2 opened with a makeshift passageway due to construction setbacks on the actual exit.
  • He married Roxanne (née Messenger) Other creations by him include a baby walker made of pipes, a makeshift paddling pool made from a skip and a makeshift baby gate made from half of a door.
  • The first makeshift houses may be dated by a sandstone lintel with the date 1760.
  • Shepherds would sometimes weave a makeshift spoon from esparto leaves to eat curdle.

  • Aleksandrov started the 2012–13 season as a makeshift wide midfielder.
  • More than 25,000 affected people were housed in makeshift tents.
  • Sessions were later moved to a makeshift studio on a farm in Coatesville, New Zealand.
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