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notdürftig (adj)
   makeshift, jury-rigged, provisional, temporary; bare, meager,
poor, scanty
notdürftig (adv)
   in a makeshift fashion/way; temporarily, provisionally; barely, meagerly, poorly, scantily

„Die Einrichtung und Ausstattung ist sehr notdürftig“, berichtet der Chefarzt.
“The furnishings and equipment are very makeshift,” reports the
head doctor.
Die Anzahl der »funktionalen Analphabeten«, die das Lesen und Schreiben nur notdürftig beherrschen, liegt noch höher.
The number of “functional illiterates,” who can just barely manage to read and write, is even higher.

Related:
die Notdurft (bare) necessities; call of nature
notdürftig bekleidet scantily dressed

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