Construction
Construction noun - Something put together by arranging or connecting an array of parts.
Makeshift and construction are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Makeshift" instead a noun "Construction".
Makeshift
Makeshift noun - A temporary replacement.
Construction and makeshift are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Construction" instead a noun "Makeshift".
Both words in one sentence
- On The A-Team the construction montage (in which the team builds a makeshift vehicle/weapon out of stuff they find lying around) would qualify.
Source: Once per Episode -
Ridiculously Fast Construction: There is no way it only took them nine minutes to set up their makeshift surveillance system.
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Invoked again when Officer Takagi, while he's visiting an old friend's grave in the very snowy Hokkaido prefecture, is captured and put in a very cruel Death Trap inside a construction site — where he will either freeze to death, be blown up by a timebomb or be strangled in a makeshift gallow.
Source: Snow Means Death
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Makeshift and Construction. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 08, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/construction/makeshift
Construction & Makeshift. N.p., 2016. Web. 08 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/construction/makeshift>.
Makeshift or Construction. 2016. Accessed August 08, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/construction/makeshift.
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