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Type of measure
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stopgap
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Word definitions for stopgap in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The first house we bought was only a stopgap , until we could afford something we really liked. ▪ The Senate has passed a stopgap funding measure. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But Legacy was more of a stopgap than a serious ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. temporary; short-term. alt. temporary; short-term. n. A temporary measure or short-term fix used until something better can be obtained.
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 nowespecially 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.