stopgap 的 2 个定义
- something that fills the place of something else that is lacking; temporary substitute; makeshift: Candles are a stopgap when the electricity fails.
- makeshift: This is only a stopgap solution.
stopgap 近义词
temporarily helping
temporary help
更多stopgap例句
- 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.