Temporary solution

Usage examples of stopgap.

The ending may be analyzed simply as a kind of stopgap that is supplied to make up for the absence of any other ending, or quetë may be seen as representing an uninflected primitive "I-stem" kweti.

The Air Force and Navy would soon try to rearrange fighter coverage to harass the Backfires, but those measures were a stopgap.

Such efforts are naturally stopgap, and will blow sky high given sufficient time and provocation.

In the meantime there is this stopgap measure, the Schnorkel, which is just plumbing: a pipe that sticks up out of the water and enables you to run on diesel power, just beneath the surface.

They only worked as stopgaps at best, and sometimes failed miserably, creating worse economic crisis and famine.

The Hunger had been triggered and those occasional stopgaps weren't sufficient now—especially after taking solar damage.

We might be able to reduce the viral load of some patients, but it's a stopgap measure at best that would have to applied to the entire population, and that's tough with three and a half million people.