makeshiftimprovised, temporary and made with whatever is availableThe lucky ones reach makeshift camps and shelters in overburdened towns and villages. Various speakers took to a makeshift stage at the base of Nelson's Column to give their opinions and advice on the use of marijuana, law and health issues concerning the drug, and grave warnings of bad quality and contaminated hashish, commonly known as Soap Bar. In Izmit, the city ice rink has become a makeshift morgue. Given this diversity, it is not surprising that EFTA, with its limited infrastructure, looked a rather makeshift organisation. At the moment facilities for parents to stay in the hospital are makeshift. a temporary substituteAlways use the proper tool for the job, do not use makeshifts. Several of the youngest people I talked to had moved two and three times in their first few years, sometimes with a period in makeshifts such as prefabs, a story common to thousands. After the depressing makeshifts to which she had been reduced by British rationing, the sensation of wonderful materials against her skin was almost as pleasing as the vendeuse's comments about `Madame's wonderful figure' and striking face.