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Significados de stopgap en inglés

Something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency.

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