"make-do" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from make do.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more make-do",
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    {
      "form": "most make-do",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "improvised, makeshift"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "make do"
      },
      "expansion": "Deverbal from make do",
      "name": "deverbal"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from make do.",
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    {
      "form": "make-dos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1980 April 12, Audre Lorde, “On The Erotic”, in Gay Community News, page 4",
          "text": "Even the play-acting of destructive power is only a run-through, or make-do, for the real thing, a way of familiarizing the participants to these roles when the real thing comes along.",
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        "A temporary or makeshift expedient."
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          "expedient",
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        ]
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        {
          "word": "make do"
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          "word": "make do and mend"
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          "word": "workaround"
        }
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  "word": "make-do"
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  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from make do.",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from make do.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "make-dos",
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        "plural"
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  ],
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          "ref": "1980 April 12, Audre Lorde, “On The Erotic”, in Gay Community News, page 4",
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  "word": "make-do"
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