Meanings of plug gaps in English

At the moment we are starting to plug gaps, he said.

Black Hawk helicopters dropped the sandbags to plug gaps in coastal beaches through which the oil could seep.

That happens every day. There is a serious lack of staff and reliance on agency personnel to plug gaps.

The busy calving period had been challenging and exhausting for those who were unable to plug gaps, he said.

It emerged last Wednesday that 3,500 troops were being drafted in to plug gaps.

He wanted to know if the ANC were planning to use state employee pensions to plug gaps in the economy.

He believes integration schemes are trying to plug gaps in basic services rather than make good services work together more effectively.

No doubt Beveridge would be alarmed at how benefits now plug gaps created by social and market failures he never expected.

To address the deficit, non-profits and others are increasingly harnessing technology to reach disadvantaged communities and plug gaps in traditional education systems.

If the ECB required the euro zone parents to boost their capital, they might want to dip into subsidiaries to plug gaps.

Some explode after a few seconds, some explode on contact, and some serve as muscle to knock over objects and plug gaps.

They were kept around and use as needed to plug gaps and cover asses, especially their own....

Sure, The Conversation is a commentary on cinema, but also on the way curiosity leads us to plug gaps with the wrong colour.

Funding from the GPE should always help to leverage increases in domestic spending -rather than plug gaps left by deliberate government inaction.

Black Hawk helicopters dropped bags to plug gaps in coastal beaches through which the oil could wash into fragile inland marshes and wetlands.

India is looking at alternative sources of energy to plug gaps in its supply and demand for electricity which lead to frequent power cuts.