Synonyms for make-do
make-do

Princeton's WordNet

1. makeshift, stopgap, make-donoun

   something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency

Matched Categories

1. • Expedient

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1. Ryan Greendeer:

   Because of the fire activity around the entire region, our resources are stretched very, very thin, each incident is having to make do with what is available, not what's needed.

2. Ron Wyden:

   Clearly, they have a clear decision to make. Do they want to reach out and support policies that would be beneficial to everybody, which would be that you would have to have the bipartisanship that was so dramatically lacking in the health care debate? this administration never had one substantive conversation with me about health care reform.

3. Danilo Piraccini:

   This business is all about shaking hands and hugging people. Now we'll have to make do with a little wave and a smile of the eyes over a mask.

4. Astronaut Scott Kelly:

   Even though I had a shower in Canada, I hadn’t had running water for 340 days, we make do with not having a shower on board [the space station] – I definitely feel like I would like jump in a pool.

5. Peter Chin-Hong:

   In Covid-19 we don't have the luxury of time, this is one of the treatment options where we are teaching old drugs new tricks. We don't have the time to take a drug rationally from beginning to end because we have a crisis right now. We have to make do with what we have.