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[sentencedict.com], 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.