A stopgap solution was unlikely to reassure business or investors, he said.

Ordaining married men to the priesthood would be a stopgap solution.

The stopgap solution toward a safer school bus would be simpler tech, like blindspot detection.

Charity can never be more than a stopgap solution.

However, the viability of bio-fuels as anything other than a short-term stopgap solution is in question.

But it's a stopgap solution on the way to copyright holders and music fans getting past physical media.

Their stopgap solution had been a simple whiteboard, but the duo was intrigued by the notion of interactivity.

We need a stopgap solution.

It combines good back support with formal elegance but it's a buy-for-life piece of furniture rather than a stopgap solution.

Like setting up a firewall, it's basically a stopgap solution -and not one a vulnerable military wants to junk.