Usually means: Create spontaneously with available resources.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. improvise: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. improvise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. improvise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. improvise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. improvise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Improvise, improvise: Wordnik
  7. improvise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. improvise: Wiktionary
  9. improvise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. improvise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. improvise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Improvise, improvise: Dictionary.com
  13. improvise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Improvise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Improvise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. improvise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. improvise: Rhymezone
  18. improvise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. improvise: Free Dictionary
  20. improvise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. improvise: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. improvise: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  2. improvise: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. improvise: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. IMPROVISE: Acronym Finder
  2. improvise: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Improvise: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See improvised as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, intuition, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan.

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