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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stopgap
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 WordStar product, a tester, you might say.
▪ For quite some time many people will find a job to be a workable stopgap solution to the need for an income.
▪ It is not a stopgap but a proper part of the cinematic arts.
▪ Retaining employees means less time and money wasted on recruiting and training temporary stopgaps.
▪ They find themselves indulging in crisis management and employing stopgap solutions and holding operations.
▪ This move proved a mere stopgap until the appearance of the last pre-republican premier, the moderate conservative Shahpur Bakhtiar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stopgap

also stop-gap, 1680s, from stop (v.) + gap (n.); the notion probably being of something that plugs a leak, but it may be in part from gap (n.) in a specific military sense "opening or breach in defenses by which attack may be made (1540s). Also as an adjective from 1680s.

Wiktionary
stopgap

a. temporary; short-term. alt. temporary; short-term. n. A temporary measure or short-term fix used until something better can be obtained.

WordNet
stopgap

n. something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency [syn: makeshift]

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.