Similar words: stop, nonstop, non-stop, stop by, stopped, bus stop, stoppage, rest stop. Meaning: n. something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency.
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1. Hostels are usually provided as a stopgap until the families can be housed in permanent accommodation.
2. The arrangement was only intended as a stopgap.
3. Candles are a stopgap when the electricity fails.
4. It's only a stopgap measure, not a long - term solution.
5. The Senate has passed a stopgap funding measure.
6. It is not a stopgap but a proper part of the cinematic arts.
7. The first house we bought was only a stopgap, until we could afford something we really liked.
8. But Legacy was more of a stopgap than a serious WordStar product, a tester, you might say.
9. This move proved a mere stopgap until the appearance of the last pre-republican premier, the moderate conservative Shahpur Bakhtiar.
10. So the IBRD plays a useful stopgap role.
11. It was intended as a stopgap.
12. Stopgap is search dog, medium search and sina.
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13. I intend it as a stopgap.
14. They've lent us an old TV as a stopgap until our new one's delivered.
15. With passage of the latest stopgap measure, Republicans have managed to trim $10 billion from the budget, mostly in noncontroversial areas backed by President Barack Obama.
16. Otherwise it will just be a stopgap before further unemployment.
17. We might have to employ someone temporarily as a stopgap measure until we can fill the post.
18. Gone are the days when work was just a stopgap between leaving school and getting married.
19. For quite some time many people will find a job to be a workable stopgap solution to the need for an income.
20. Educational grants and salary boosts could certainly help the careers of some nurses, but these are stopgap measures.
21. Essandoh's agent contacted Wycombe after reading on Teletext that they were in the market for a stopgap striker.
22. They find themselves indulging in crisis management and employing stopgap solutions and holding operations.
23. With the tens of thousands of people pouring in each year, every-thing was a stopgap measure.
24. Anti - corruption must stick to the two aspects oftaking stopgap measures and taking radical measures.
25. Even if the bill were approved, it would be no more than a stopgap measure.