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Examples of stopgap
stopgap
For the past year, Europe has sought to manage the crisis with stopgap measures.
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Instead, lawmakers approved a stopgap funding measure that runs through March 4.
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Gibril Wilson signed with Oakland, so the team signed Sammy Knight as a stopgap.
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These are stopgap measures, of course, and no substitute for legislative relief.
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Rod Marinelli dismissed initial assertions of Kitna as a stopgap at quarterback.
From the freep.com
This stopgap measure isn't enough to address the country's immigration problems.
From the latimes.com
Eleven years later, I was still in my stopgap, and increasingly unhappy about it.
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The stopgap approach has made it difficult to gauge companies'true liabilities.
From the forbes.com
I do not understand why you would not embrace this as a sensible stopgap measure.
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- Makeshift: something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
- Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings. ...
- A temporary measure or short-term fix used until something better can be obtained; Temporary; short-term
- Temporary repair of a broken leaded window.
