What is "making do"

Usage examples of "making do".

It often flared up when he was on campaign and making do with field provisions.

The unit is full of head trauma cases, with more on the ward, making do with less careful observation.

Now he was making do with family money off of rental properties an agent managed.

I begin to see why the good doctor was making do with primitive equipment.

For the Kornatians themselves, it was more of a matter of brute manpower and making do, given their limited and relatively primitive computer capability.

Even if I had the money, and the instrument, I can't keep going on like I have been, begging for time to play, and making do with lessons snatched from other minstrels.

She hadn't brought a huge amount of clothesat home she'd never bothered much with clothes at all, making do with thrift-shop finds and whatever her mother gave her for Christmas.

The problems presented by lack of equipment, the necessity of 'making do', gave him a degree of happiness he had not known since he was a boy, but was not aware of it.