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• n  something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency

• With a stopgap law expiring Saturday, the showdown has set up a political battle likely to play out through the November elections if both sides refuse to back down.
• Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged on Monday that rescuing hostages in this case, Navy snipers took out Phillips' three captors is only a stopgap way of dealing .
• Tehran could use all these stopgap methods to buy time which is all it really needs to do.

• makeshift
• make-do

News & Articles

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• BSA decision just a stopgap in the big picture
  Undoubtedly, the recent vote was just a stopgap measure to buy the organization some time to figure out a longer-term strategy. In the short-term, the organization will have to confront some backlash of the recent policy change.
  June 7, 2013 - Barrow Journal
• The BSA decision is just a stopgap in the big picture
  Undoubtedly, the recent vote was just a stopgap measure to buy the organization some time to figure out a longer-term strategy. In the short-term, the organization will have to confront some backlash of the recent policy change.
  June 7, 2013 - The Jackson Herald
• Readers Feel...
  The Texas Legislature's redistricting mission was supposed to be easy-peasy: Zip in for a special session, ratify the court-drawn maps used as a stopgap in the 2012 elections, close the legislative books and go home.
  June 7, 2013 - KAMR Amarillo

Quotes

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• Chip Pickering in Forbes
  It would be a Band-Aid or stopgap that would prevent us from getting to the comprehensive reform,Pickering said in an interview.
• Rod Blagojevich in St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  These one-month stopgap emergency budgets are necessary for now,Blagojevich said, "but a continuing stream of one-month budgets is nothing more than a Republican budget in disguise."
• Jeff Probyn in International Herald Tribune
  It's a bad move because Brian is not a long-term solution,Probyn said. "It's a short term stopgap and that's not what England need. They need to put in place a structure that will take them forward for the next 10 years rather than taking...