stopgap
Example Sentences
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There are “buffers” that can serve as temporary “stopgaps” to make up for the oil lost to an effective closure of the waterway.
From MarketWatch
He typically only charges his high hourly fee as a stopgap measure until he strikes a fee agreement.
Should your children’s inheritance come with stopgaps and caveats, or is it better to simply leave them a sum for education and housing and give the rest to your favorite causes?
From MarketWatch
More companies chose a board member to run things day-to-day last year, usually a stopgap move that suggests succession hadn’t gone as planned, Spencer Stuart said.
What was once a Depression-era stopgap, then a wartime necessity, has become a pillar of the moviegoing experience and the film business itself.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
