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