stopgap
something that fills the place of something else that is lacking; temporary substitute; makeshift: Candles are a stopgap when the electricity fails.
makeshift: This is only a stopgap solution.
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How to use stopgap in a sentence
Jones acknowledges that the company’s technology is only a stopgap solution… for now.
A startup using a new tech to make hydrogen extracts cash from Bill Gates’ climate tech fund | Jonathan Shieber | February 9, 2021 | TechCrunchWashington could also pursue Ryan, a steady veteran similar to Alex Smith without the injury concerns, or Mariota, a one-season stopgap.
With Matthew Stafford out of the running, Washington’s quarterback options are limited | Nicki Jhabvala, Sam Fortier | February 1, 2021 | Washington PostComplicating matters, lawmakers still have not reached an agreement on how to fund the federal agencies beyond the stopgap bill.
Senate approves one-week spending bill to avert midnight shutdown | Mike DeBonis, Jeff Stein, Seung Min Kim | December 11, 2020 | Washington PostLenders have allowed some borrowers to delay payments or use loan reserves as a stopgap.
Mounting commercial real estate losses threaten banks, recovery | David Lynch | November 11, 2020 | Washington PostIf a stopgap funding bill isn’t passed by the end of September, the federal government will shut down.
Supreme Court fight could derail chances for second stimulus check and extended unemployment benefits | Lance Lambert | September 21, 2020 | Fortune
He has left millions of homeowners to fend for themselves, and even his health care plan is really only a stopgap measure.
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Live In: Kevin Baker’s New York | Allen Barra | September 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHis “strategists” have concocted a series of stopgap tactics.
How Mitt Romney Can Win the First Debate With Obama | Robert Shrum | September 25, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAs for Fattorosi of XPays, he sees the lawsuits as only a stopgap.
But even Joffe admits that a better radar and rapid reaction system is only a partial, stopgap solution.
Only it had been planned as a short-term stopgap—one to be used only until a below-surface airlock could be constructed.
First on the Moon | Jeff SuttonHowever, a stopgap was found in the person of the book-keeper, a young Englishman, who knew more of music than accounts.
A Little Bush Maid | Mary Grant BruceThe stopgap was such that it must remain as it was; and every further effort was useless.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor HugoBecause Brownlee knows why I'm looking for a cure to replace the stopgap.
Nor Iron Bars a Cage.... | Gordon Randall GarrettIn this his Christian neighbours liked him well, insomuch as he was a kind of stay or stopgap to the infidels.
British Dictionary definitions for stopgap
/ (ˈstɒpˌɡæp) /
a temporary substitute for something else
(as modifier): a stopgap programme
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