Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
EXTEMPORIZE
improvise, improvize, ad-lib, extemporize, extemporise
(verb) perform without preparation; “he extemporized a speech at the wedding”
improvise, extemporize
(verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand; “after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
extemporize (third-person singular simple present extemporizes, present participle extemporizing, simple past and past participle extemporized)
(intransitive) To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
(transitive) To do, create, improvise, adapt, or devise in an impromptu or spontaneous manner.
Synonyms
• (intransitive): improvise, think on one's feet
• (transitive): devise, improvise
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*tem"po*rize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Extemporized(); p. pr. & vb. n. Extemporizing().]
Definition: To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address.
Ex*tem"po*rize, v. t.
Definition: To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc. Themistocles . . . was of all men the best able to extemporize the right thing to be done. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a Queen's speech Lord Campbell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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