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Something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency.
makeshift
make-do
1
A
stopgap
solution was unlikely to reassure business or investors, he said.
2
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a
stopgap
funding measure on Thursday.
3
So a
stopgap
policy, referred to as nuclear deterrence, went into effect.
4
The conversation of the women is all of the veriest
stopgap
character.
5
Despite the announcement, Honda still sees battery electric vehicles as a
stopgap
.
6
So you think you're only worthy as a
stopgap
for lonely guys?
7
Public expenditures this year have so far been financed by
stopgap
funding measures.
8
But political damage control is not a problem-solving strategy; it's a
stopgap
tactic.
9
The current solution is a
stopgap
-
spiking
the
water supply with an anticorrosive chemical.
10
She said bipartisan discussions continued about a possible
stopgap
inversion bill.
11
Graham said he too would not vote for another
stopgap
measure.
12
Since this is clearly reprehensible, one might try a
stopgap
measure.
13
The House of Representatives was expected to pass the
stopgap
bill on Friday.
14
Temporary
stopgap
measures cropped up across the city as an evacuation was organized.
15
Ordaining married men to the priesthood would be a
stopgap
solution.
16
It had been rented from neighboring Spain as a
stopgap
measure.
stopgap
stopgap measure
stopgap funding
stopgap bill
stopgap solution
stopgap budget