0 something intended for temporary use until something better or more suitable can be found:
Hostels are used as a stopgap until the families can find permanent accommodation.
We might have to employ someone temporarily as a stopgap measure until we can hire someone permanently.
1 something that can be used until something better or more permanent can be obtained:
In more recent years, donor fatigue and reports of misappropriated food have led to crises in the camps, requiring frequent stopgap measures.
A better stopgap measure until such norms are available would be the use of extrapolated (sometimes referred to as extended) scores.
And yet, sad to say, the investigation as a whole has too much wrong with it to achieve other than 'stopgap' status.
I do not think he is being fair to those who will sail in them when he describes the vessels as clapped-out stopgaps.
We have heard a lot about the stopgap arrangements which have been made —the crowding out of existing colleges, and so on.
This aircraft is, of course, only a stopgap aircraft: it should not be regarded as anything else.
This support can take the form of grants to encourage placement with an employer or stopgap training whilst an employer is sought.
These task forces are not stopgaps but forces which are set up to deal with the problem which undoubtedly exists.
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