Something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency.
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.
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