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shiftnoun an action planned or taken to achieve a desired resultdesperate shifts to stave off financial disaster expedient, means, measure, move, step act, action, deed, doing, feat, thingcourse, procedure, proceeding, processaccomplishment, achievement, attainment, coup, exploit, success, triumphactivity, affair, business, dealing, enterprise, eventattempt, crack, endeavor, essay, fling, go, initiative, operation, pass, shot, stab, trial, try, undertaking, whackeffort, exertion, labor, pains, trouble, while, workproject, proposal, propositionmakeshift, resort, resource, stopgapcountermeasure, countermove, counterstep the act or an instance of changing positionmade a small shift to the left to make more room on the bench motion, move, movement, shifting, stir, stirring dislocation, migration, relocationlocomotion, mobility, motility, motivityfiddling, fidgeting, squirm, squirming, twitching, wriggling, writhingflailing, flapping, waving motionlessness immobilityinertia, inertness, stillnesscessation, discontinuance, ending, expiration, finish, halt, lapse, pause, shutdown, shutoff, stop, stoppage, surcease, termination to change the place or position ofhe shifted the vase closer to the wall so that it wouldn't get knocked over budge, dislocate, displace, disturb, move, relocate, remove, reposition, transfer, transpose bear, carry, cart, convey, drive, haul, lug, tote, transmit, transplant, transportreplace, supersede, supplantalter, make over, modify, redo, refashion, remake, remodel, revamp, revise, rework, vary anchor, fix, freeze, moor, secure, set, stabilizeembed(also imbed), entrench(also intrench), implant, ingrain(also engrain), lodge, root to change one's positionshe shifted uncomfortably in her seat throughout the interview budge, locomote, move, stir fiddle, fidget, jiggle, squiggle, squirm, toss, twitch, wiggle, wriggle, writherouse freeze, still hang around, remain, stay, stick around, tarrystabilize to pass from one form, state, or level to anothershe watched the aurora in fascination as its colors shifted from green to blue change, fluctuate, mutate, snap, vary metamorphose, morph, transmutebetter, improvedeteriorate, worsenturn aroundseesaw, teeter, vacillate, waver plateau, stabilize to give up (something) and take something else in returnmy brother and I shifted seats just before takeoff so that he could sit by the window change, commute, exchange, substitute, swap, switch, trade interchangedisplace, replace, supersedecede, hand over, surrender, yieldreciprocate to meet one's day-to-day needsleft the others to shift for themselves cope, do, fare, get along, get by, get on, make out, manage carry on, contrive, scrape (by or through), scroungelast, surviveeke out, scrape (out), squeeze, wrest, wringafford, swing fend for oneself, make do, make ends meet, make shift collapse, fail, fall short, fizzle, flounderdecline, peter (out), slump, wanegive up n.resource, resort, expedient, shift, makeshift, stopgap mean something one turns to in the absence of the usual means or source of supply.resource and resort apply to anything one falls back upon.exhausted all of their resources a last resort expedient may apply to any device or contrivance used when the usual one is not at hand or not possible.a flimsy expedient shift implies a tentative or temporary imperfect expedient.desperate shifts to stave off foreclosure makeshift implies an inferior expedient adopted because of urgent need or allowed through indifference.old equipment employed as a makeshift stopgap applies to something used temporarily as an emergency measure.a new law intended only as a stopgap in the 13th century |