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stopgap

/stop-gap/US // ˈstɒpˌgæp //UK // (ˈstɒpˌɡæp) //

权宜之计,权宜之策,权宜措施

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something that fills the place of something else that is lacking; temporary substitute; makeshift: Candles are a stopgap when the electricity fails.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : makeshift: This is only a stopgap solution.

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Examples

  • Jones acknowledges that the company’s technology is only a stopgap solution… for now.

  • Washington could also pursue Ryan, a steady veteran similar to Alex Smith without the injury concerns, or Mariota, a one-season stopgap.

  • Complicating matters, lawmakers still have not reached an agreement on how to fund the federal agencies beyond the stopgap bill.

  • Lenders have allowed some borrowers to delay payments or use loan reserves as a stopgap.

  • If a stopgap funding bill isn’t passed by the end of September, the federal government will shut down.

  • He has left millions of homeowners to fend for themselves, and even his health care plan is really only a stopgap measure.

  • His “strategists” have concocted a series of stopgap tactics.

  • As for Fattorosi of XPays, he sees the lawsuits as only a stopgap.

  • But even Joffe admits that a better radar and rapid reaction system is only a partial, stopgap solution.

  • Only it had been planned as a short-term stopgap—one to be used only until a below-surface airlock could be constructed.

  • However, a stopgap was found in the person of the book-keeper, a young Englishman, who knew more of music than accounts.

  • The stopgap was such that it must remain as it was; and every further effort was useless.

  • Because Brownlee knows why I'm looking for a cure to replace the stopgap.

  • In this his Christian neighbours liked him well, insomuch as he was a kind of stay or stopgap to the infidels.