Synonyms and related words :
action, ad hoc, ad hoc measure, ad lib, ad libitum, ad-lib, ad-libbing, adulterated, agent, alternate, alternative, analogy, answer, arrangement, artifice, backup, band-aid, blemished, caught napping, caught off balance, caught short, change, changeling, comparison, contrivance, copy, counterfeit, countermove, coup, course of action, damaged, defective, deficient, demarche, deputy, dernier ressort, device, dodge, double, dummy, effort, emergency, equal, equivalent, erroneous, ersatz, exchange, expediency, expedient, extemporaneous, extemporaneousness, extemporariness, extemporary, extempore, extemporization, extemporized, fake, fallible, faulty, fill-in, found wanting, ghost, ghostwriter, gimmick, haphazard, hasty, imitation, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impromptu, improvisation, improvisational, improvisatorial, improvise, improvised, improvision, improviso, impure, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inexact, jury-rig, jury-rigged, jury-rigged expedient, lacking, last expedient, last resort, last shift, locum tenens, makeshifty, maneuver, means, measure, mediocre, metaphor, metonymy, mixed, mock, move, next best thing, not perfect, off, off-the-cuff, offhand, partial, patchy, personnel, phony, pinch, pinch hitter, pis aller, playing by ear, precipitate, pro tempore, provisional, proxy, recourse, refuge, relief, replacement, representative, reserve, reserves, resort, resource, ringer, rough-and-ready, second string, secondary, shake-up, shift, short, sign, sketchy, slapdash, snap, solution, spare, spares, stand-in, step, stopgap, stratagem, stroke, stroke of policy, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surprised, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, tactic, taken aback, taken by surprise, taken unawares, temporary, temporary arrangement, temporary expedient, temporary measure, tentative, third string, token, trick, tripped up, trump, unarranged, unbegun, unconcocted, uncontrived, undeliberated, understudy, undeveloped, undevised, uneven, unfinished, unhatched, unmade, unmanufactured, unorganized, unperfected, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unprimed, unready, unrehearsed, unsound, unstudied, unthorough, utility, utility player, vicar, vicarious, vice-president, vice-regent, wanting, working hypothesis, working proposition