makeshift office
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈmeɪkʃɪft ˈɔfɪs/
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oficina improvisada
- It's his makeshift office; he's surrounded by scraps of notepaper.
Examples
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GMP project manager Charlie Pughe told me all of this in trailer four, one of the makeshift offices lined up in a one-time field off Route 100.
Blog text (8) -
There is a makeshift office on the desk.
Fiction book (1995) -
Sometimes she would march across the tranquil Berkeley campus to his little makeshift office to see him.
Fiction book (1994) -
After the hurricane, many workers set up a makeshift office in a community center to assist those in need.
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The volunteers quickly organized a makeshift office in the parking lot to provide support for the disaster relief efforts.
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During the event, the organizers created a makeshift office using folding tables and tents for the check-in process.
Synonyms
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1.0
A room or set of rooms where people do desk work for a company
How Makeshift
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'makeshift office' is directly compositional: 'makeshift' means temporary or improvised and 'office' denotes a workspace, so the combined meaning is an improvised or temporary office. This modifier + noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand it.
Etymology
Makeshift office comes from the word makeshift, made of make + shift, meaning something you make quickly to cover a missing thing. So a makeshift office is a 'temporary' workspace put together from what you have when you need an office fast.